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 BERGSONI would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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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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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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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.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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