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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
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
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

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