The Motive Power Of Democracy Is Love

On The Other Hand, The Pleasure Caused By Laughter, Even On The Stage, Is Not An Unadulterated Enjoyment; It Is Not A Pleasure That Is Exclusively Esthetic Or Altogether Disinterested. It Always Implies A Secret Or Unconscious Intent, If Not Of Each One Of Us, At All Events Of Society As A Whole. In Laughter We Always Find An Unavowed Intention To Humiliate, And Consequently To Correct Our Neighbour, If Not In His Will, At Least In His Deed.

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.

For Life Is Tendency, And The Essence Of A Tendency Is To Develop In The Form Of A Sheaf, Creating, By Its Very Growth, Divergent Directions Among Which Its Impetus Is Divided.

The Movement Of The Stream Is Distinct From The River Bed, Although It Must Adopt Its Winding Course.

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?