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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Henri Bergson

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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter 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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
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 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
Is 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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
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
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
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

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