The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSONYou will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
-
-
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
HENRI BERGSON -
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSON -
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
HENRI BERGSON -
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
HENRI BERGSON -
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSON -
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON -
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
HENRI BERGSON -
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
HENRI BERGSON -
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSON -
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSON -
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSON -
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
HENRI BERGSON -
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSON -
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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