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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
HENRI BERGSON

Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

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