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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves

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