Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
HENRI BERGSONGenius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to 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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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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