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Laughter is, above all, a cor...

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.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

We are free when our actions ...

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.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

I cannot escape the objection...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

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To drive out the darkness, br...

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

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The emotion felt by a man in ...

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

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Action on the move creates it...

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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Europe is overpopulated, the ...

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

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ACT as men of thought; THINK ...

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

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Fortunately, some are born wi...

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

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Realism is in the work when i...

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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Is it astonishing that, like ...

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

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If reality impacted directly ...

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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I see plainly how external im...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

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The vital spirit. L'?lan vita...

The vital spirit. L'?lan vital

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An absolute can only be given...

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

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The prestige of the Nobel Pri...

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

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I would say act like a man of...

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

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There is nothing [that] disar...

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

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The only cure for vanity is l...

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

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It is the very essence of int...

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

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