When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
HENRI BERGSONThere is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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