Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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