French - Philosopher | October 18, 1859 - January 4, 1941
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 Bergson
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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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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
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