I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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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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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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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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