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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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