The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSONACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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