Henri Bergson Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

• 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

• 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

• It seems that laughter needs an echo.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

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

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Humble, Vanity

• 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

• There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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