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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Henri Bergson

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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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 urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

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