Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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