Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with 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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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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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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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 urging the manufacture.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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