Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSONTo ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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