Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson
To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson
To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. – Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
For one seldom hears a genuine laugh nowadays, and much of the phraseology of laughter is a mere fashion of speech. There are many people whose sides have never ached from over-indulgence in the outward expression of mirth…. With some persons a wheeze or a chuckle is the utmost they can compass. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889