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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
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

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