One can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSONA 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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