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

Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
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
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
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
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
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning

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