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

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
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

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