Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSONAn absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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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 emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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