Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSONThe movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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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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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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 varying the manufacture.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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 is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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