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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

Henri Bergson

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group 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
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
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy

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