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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

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
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy

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