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.
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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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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