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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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Underlying the doctrines which disregard the radical novelty of each moment of evolution there are many misunderstandings, many errors. But there is especially the idea that the possible is less than the real, and that, for this reason, the possibility of things precedes their existence. They would thus be capable of representation beforehand; they could be thought of before being realised. But it is the reverse that is true. If we leave aside the closed systems, subjected to purely mathematical laws, isolable because duration does not act upon them, if we consider the totality of concrete reality or simply the world of life, and still more that of consciousness, we find there is more and not less in the possibility of each of the successive states than in their reality. For the possible is only the real with the addition of an act of mind which throws its image back into the past, once it has been enacted. But that is what our intellectual habits prevent us from seeing.
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.
Ora se enunciará o que deveria ser fingindo-se acreditar ser precisamente o que é. Nisso consiste a ironia. Ora, pelo contrário, se descreverá cada vez mais meticulosamente o que é, fingindo-se crer que assim é que as coisas deveriam ser. É o caso do humor. O humor, assim definido, é o inverso da
ironia. Ambos são formas da sátira, mas a ironia é de natureza retórica, ao passo que o humor tem algo de mais científico. Acentua-se a ironia deixando-se arrastar cada vez mais alto pela idéia do bem que deveria ser. Por isso a ironia pode aquecer-se interiormente até se tornar, de algum modo, eloqüência sob pressão. Acentua-se o humor, pelo contrário, descendo-se cada vez mais baixo no interior do mal que é, para lhe notar as particularidades com mais fria indiferença. Vários autores, entre os quais Jean Paul, observaram que o humor gosta dos termos concretos, dos pormenores técnicos,, dos fatos rigorosos. Se nossa análise estiver certa, não se trata de um feitio casual do humor, mas nisso consiste a sua própria essência. O humorista é no caso um moralista disfarçado em cientista, algo como um anatomista que só faça dissecação para nos
desagradar; e o humor, no sentido restrito que damos à palavra, é de fato uma transposição do moral em científico.