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It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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 idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

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