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.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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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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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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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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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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