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.
HENRI BERGSONThe major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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 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 varying the manufacture.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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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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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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 believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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