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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Bergson

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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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
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
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
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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 universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves

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