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

Henri Bergson

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself 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
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
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
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
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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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
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

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