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

Henri Bergson

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
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 motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent

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