Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergsonwas a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that the processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 October 1859
CountryFrance
motivational spiritual heart
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.
time past causes
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
laughter echoes mountain
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
independent two different
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.
laughter humble vanity
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
laughter
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
laughter becoming force
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
obstacles emotion spite
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
laughter philosophical echoes
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
philosophical giving movement
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
philosophical simple mind
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
kindness laughter taken
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
laughter hands secret
On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.