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

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

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About Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Alternative Names: Henri-Louis Bergson H. Bergson Henry Bergson Henri Louis Bergson Berxon
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A arte do caricaturista consiste em captar esse movimento às vezes imperceptível, e em torná-lo visível a todos os olhos mediante ampliação dele. Ele faz com que os seus modelos careteiem como se
fossem ao extremo de sua careta. Ele adivinha, sob as harmonias superficiais da forma, as revoltas profundas da matéria. Efetua desproporções e deformações
que poderiam existir na natureza se ela pudesse ter vontade, mas que não puderam concretizar-se, reprimidas que foram por uma força melhor. A
caricatura, que tem algo de diabólico, ressalta o demônio que venceu o anjo.

Intelligence starts ordinarily from the immobile, and reconstructs movement as best it can with immobilities in juxtaposition. Intuition starts from movement, posits it, or rather perceives it as reality itself, and sees in immobility only an abstract moment, a snapshot taken by our mind, of a mobility. Intelligence ordinarily concerns itself with things, meaning by that, with the static, and makes of change an accident which is supposedly superadded. For intuition the essential is change: as for the thing, as intelligence understands it, it is a cutting which has been made out of the becoming and set up by our mind as a substitute for the whole. Thought ordinarily pictures to itself the new as a new arrangement of pre-existing elements; nothing is ever lost for it, nothing is ever created. Intuition, bound up to a duration which is growth, perceives in it an uninterrupted continuity of unforeseeable novelty; it sees, it knows that the mind draws from itself more than it has, that spirituality consists in just that, and that reality, impregnated with spirit, is creation. The habitual labor of thought is easy and can be prolonged at will. Intuition is arduous and cannot last.

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