It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSONTo perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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 urging the manufacture.
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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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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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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.
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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.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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