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Henri Bergson Quotes about Laughter

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Henri Bergson
Happiness, Laughter, Creativity

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

Henri Bergson
Happiness, Smile, Laughter

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson
Laughter, Humble, Vanity

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

Henri Bergson
Laughter

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Henri Bergson
Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

Henri Bergson
Laughter, Real, Secret
Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Henri Bergson
Laughter, Kindness, Taken
Henri Bergson (2014). “Key Writings”, p.478, Bloomsbury Publishing

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

Henri Bergson
Laughter, Echoes, Mountain
Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Bergson
Happiness, Laughter, Joy
Henri Bergson (2013). “Comedy: An Essay on Comedy”, p.68, Doubleday

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

Henri Bergson
Laughter, Intention, Neighbour
Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.67, Courier Corporation

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.

Henri Bergson
Laughter, Hands, Secret
Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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