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.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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