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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.

Henri Bergson

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
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
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
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

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