Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONIs it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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