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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Henri Bergson

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural

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