And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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One can always reason with reason.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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