When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
HENRI BERGSONArt 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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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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