Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter 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 would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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