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.
HENRI BERGSONIn 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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