"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention……" — Henri Bergson
"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
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64 Quotes by Henri Bergson
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and…
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what…
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude,…
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each…
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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