Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
HENRI BERGSONSex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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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.
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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.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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