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

Henri Bergson

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
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking

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

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