The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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 is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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