One can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSONTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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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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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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