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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
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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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
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
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
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
HENRI BERGSON

Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom

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