There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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