The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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 present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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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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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my 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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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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