It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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