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.
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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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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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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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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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