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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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
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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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom

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