The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSONArt 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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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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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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