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.
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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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