However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
HENRI BERGSONThe universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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