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.
Henri Bergson
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Henri Bergson
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
Henri Bergson
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
Henri Bergson
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Henri Bergson
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Henri Bergson
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Henri Bergson
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri Bergson
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
Henri Bergson
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
Henri Bergson
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Henri Bergson
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
Henri Bergson
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Henri Bergson
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
Henri Bergson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Henri Bergson
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano de Bergerac
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano de Bergerac
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Antonin Artaud Quotes
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
Antonin Artaud
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Antonin Artaud
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Antonin Artaud
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud
Those who live, live off the dead.
Antonin Artaud
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud
When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
Antonin Artaud
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Antonin Artaud
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Antonin Artaud
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud
Those who live, live off the dead.
Antonin Artaud
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud
When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
Raymond Aron Quotes
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Raymond Aron
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron
Raymond Aron
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron
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