Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSONTo perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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 urging the manufacture.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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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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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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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