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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
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
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need

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