Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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 varying the manufacture.
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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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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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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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?
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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