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It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Henri Bergson

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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
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
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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