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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Henri Bergson

Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
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
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
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
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
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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 only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity

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