There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSONIf 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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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One can always reason with reason.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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