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

Henri Bergson

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
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
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
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science

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