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

Henri Bergson

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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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 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
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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need

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