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.
HENRI BERGSONI believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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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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