A 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 BERGSONAnd I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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