Quote by Henri Bergson
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming c

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. – Henri Bergson

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We regard intelligence as mans main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. – Henri Bergson

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Intelligence
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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. – Honore de Balzac

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The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort), translated from French

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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! – Agnes Repplier

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. – Robert Burns

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Laughter

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