The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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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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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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