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

Henri Bergson

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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
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
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
HENRI BERGSON

Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself

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

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