In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSONI see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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 only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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