Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSONYou 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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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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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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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