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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

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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
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
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

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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