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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.
Henri Bergson
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Henri Bergson
Age: 81 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 18
Died: 1941
Died: January 4
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Paris
France
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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One can always reason with reason.
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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The vital spirit. L'élan vital
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To ease another's burden, help to carry it.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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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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