Henri Bergson

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#fault #laughable #laughter #only #vanity

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#action #like #man #think #thought

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#itself #means #perceive #perception #seize

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

#always #comic #different #each #events

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. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creating #develop #directions #divergent #divided

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creature #endowed #existence #homo #homo sapiens

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#call #external #how #i #i see

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#consequently #correct #find #humiliate #intention

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#especially #faculty #intelligence #make #making

It seems that laughter needs an echo. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#laughter #needs #seems