There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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