The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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