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

Henri Bergson

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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
To 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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Act Meaning Perception Talk
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality

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