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.
HENRI BERGSONRealism 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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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