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 BERGSONOnly those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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 motive power of democracy is love.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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