The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSONIn laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
-
-
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSON -
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
HENRI BERGSON -
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
HENRI BERGSON -
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
HENRI BERGSON -
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSON -
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
HENRI BERGSON -
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.
HENRI BERGSON -
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
HENRI BERGSON -
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
HENRI BERGSON -
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.
HENRI BERGSON -
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSON -
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
HENRI BERGSON -
The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSON -
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.
HENRI BERGSON -
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
HENRI BERGSON -
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
HENRI BERGSON -
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSON -
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.
HENRI BERGSON -
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSON -
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON -
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.
HENRI BERGSON -
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.
HENRI BERGSON -
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON -
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
HENRI BERGSON -
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSON -
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 BERGSON