In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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