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.
HENRI BERGSONThere are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to 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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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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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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