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

Henri Bergson

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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 movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
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
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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

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