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One can always reason with reason.

Henri Bergson

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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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
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
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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
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
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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

One can always reason with reason.

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