It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSONI would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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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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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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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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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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