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

Henri Bergson

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 believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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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Act Meaning Perception Talk
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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

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