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One can always reason with reason.

Henri Bergson

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
HENRI BERGSON

Escape Moments Object Simple Time
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 is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSON

Guard Laughter Ourselves
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSON

Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSON

Past Preserve Reality
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
HENRI BERGSON

Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
HENRI BERGSON

Belong Divine God Himself Love

One can always reason with reason.

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