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

Henri Bergson

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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
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
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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
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
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself

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