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.
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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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