"Certo filósofo contemporâneo, emérito argumentador, a quem se observou que os seus raciocínios irrepreensivelmente deduzidos eram contrariados pela … - Henri Bergson

The general intelligence which is the faculty of arranging concepts “reasonably” and handling words suitably, must therefore aid in the social life just as intelligence in the narrower sense of the word, which is the mathematical function of the mind, presides over the knowledge of matter. It is the first of these we have in mind when we say of a man that he is intelligent. By that we mean that he has the ability and the facility for combining the ordinary concepts and for drawing probable conclusions from them. One can hardly take issue with him on that account, as long as he confines himself to things of every-day life, for which the concepts were made. But one would hardly admit of a man who was merely intelligent undertaking to speak with authority on scientific questions seeing that the intellect, made precise in science, becomes a mathematical, physical and biological attitude of mind, and substitutes for words more appropriate signs. All the more should one forbid him to meddle in philosophy when the questions raised are no longer in the domain of the intelligence alone. But no, it is agreed that the intelligent man is on this point a competent man. Against this I protest most vigorously. I hold the intelligence in high esteem, but I have a very mediocre opinion of the “intelligent man,” whose cleverness consists in talking about all things with a show of truth.

That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter

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.