I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSONThe present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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 emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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