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As we have said, when one wishes to prepare a glass of sugared water one is obliged to wait until the sugar melts. This necessity for waiting is the … - Henri Bergson
" "As we have said, when one wishes to prepare a glass of sugared water one is obliged to wait until the sugar melts. This necessity for waiting is the significant fact. It shows that if one can cut out from the universe the systems for which time is only an abstraction, a relation, a number, the universe itself becomes something different. If we could grasp it in its entirety, inorganic but interwoven with organic beings, we should see it ceaselessly taking on forms as new, as original, as unforeseeable as our states of consciousness.
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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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Our intelligence is the prolongation of our senses. Before we speculate we must live, and life demands that we make use of matter, either with our organs, which are natural tools, or with tools, properly so-called, which are artificial organs. Long before there was a philosophy and a science, the role of the intelligence was already that of manufacturing instruments and guiding the action of our body on surrounding bodies. Science has pushed this labor of the intelligence much further, but has not changed its direction.
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.
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