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

Quote by Henri Bergson

Topics: Vanity Quotes

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect...

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect...

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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...

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

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...

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

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 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...

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and...

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and...