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.
HENRI BERGSONA 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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One can always reason with reason.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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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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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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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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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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