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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson

We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
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
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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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help

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