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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Henri Bergson

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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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
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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

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