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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.

Henri Bergson

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
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
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
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
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

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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