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.

Quote by Henri Bergson

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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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

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

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

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

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The motive power of democracy is love

The motive power of democracy is love

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate...

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

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

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

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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

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