"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and……" — Henri Bergson
"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
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Henri Bergson
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64 Quotes by Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson has 64 quotes on this site.
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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different…
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix…
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Absence - that common cure of love.
— Lord Byron
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to…
— Joseph Campbell
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the…
— John Jay Chapman
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