In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSONTo drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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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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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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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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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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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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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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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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