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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
HENRI BERGSON

Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
HENRI BERGSON

Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
HENRI BERGSON

Belong Divine God Himself Love
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON

Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Myself Thinking
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
HENRI BERGSON

Escape Moments Object Simple Time
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
HENRI BERGSON

Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSON

Group Laughter Ourselves
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
HENRI BERGSON

Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
HENRI BERGSON

Effect Past Present Reason
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Thinking

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

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