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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
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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Act Meaning Perception Talk
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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

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