To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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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 reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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