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.
HENRI BERGSONIs 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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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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