The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSONThe only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSONAn absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSONWe are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
HENRI BERGSONIntuition 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.
HENRI BERGSONI cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
HENRI BERGSONSex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSONIt seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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 BERGSONLaughter 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.
HENRI BERGSONI see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
HENRI BERGSONA 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 BERGSONThe movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSONAnd I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter 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.
HENRI BERGSON