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.
HENRI BERGSONWe 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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One can always reason with reason.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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