The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSONI cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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.
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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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