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

Henri Bergson

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
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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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
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

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

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