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

Henri Bergson

Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
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
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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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Action Artist Expression Freedom
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
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
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
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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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves

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

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