One can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSONOne can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
HENRI BERGSONTo ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
HENRI BERGSONIn laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSONOur laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSONReligion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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 BERGSONGenius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSONSome other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONIf 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.
HENRI BERGSONIt seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSONIn 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.
HENRI BERGSONAction 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.
HENRI BERGSON