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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Henri Bergson

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
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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Act Meaning Perception Talk
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality

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