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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Henri Bergson

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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
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
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View

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