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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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
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

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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