One can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSON
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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