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

Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
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
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
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
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason

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