Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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