To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSONSome other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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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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Art 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.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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