"It seems that laughter needs an echo." — Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo. - Henri Bergson

"It seems that laughter needs an echo."

— Henri Bergson

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64 Quotes by Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Echo Quotes

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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
There is no love that is not an echo. — Theodor Adorno
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. — Otto von Bismarck
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an… — Thomas Carlyle
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. — Emile M. Cioran
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the… — Eric Clapton
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting… — William Shakespeare
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get.… — Zig Ziglar
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. — Alexander Pope
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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