Instinct Perfected Is A Faculty Of Using

It Is With Our Entire Past ... That We Desire, Will And Act ... From This Survival Of The Past It Follows That Consciousness Cannot Go Through The Same State Twice. The Circumstances May Still Be The Same, But They Will Act No Longer On The Same Person ... That Is Why Our Duration Is Irreversible.

The Emotion Felt By A Man In The Presence Of Nature Certainly Counts For Something In The Origin Of Religions.

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.

Spirit Borrows From Matter The Perceptions On Which It Feeds And Restores Them To Matter In The Form Of Movements Which It Has Stamped With Its Own Freedom.

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.