To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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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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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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