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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

Henri Bergson

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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
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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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason

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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