Henri Bergson on expression
Henri Bergson63 quotes“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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson The motive power of democracy is love.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson 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.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson 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.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson 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.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII I have no words to express and completely speechless to talk about him. I am a big fan of Vidyut.
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Victoria BeckhamVictoria Beckham I’ve always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
Camila CabelloCamila Cabello I wasn’t intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that’s how it came out.
Emeli SandeEmeli Sande I’m expressin’ with my full capabilities, And now I’m livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don’t agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.
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