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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

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
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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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
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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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves

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

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