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.
HENRI BERGSONWe 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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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One can always reason with reason.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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Art 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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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