Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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.
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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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You 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.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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