The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSONTo perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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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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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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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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One can always reason with reason.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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