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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson

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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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
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
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity

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