Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
HENRI BERGSONThere 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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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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