Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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 emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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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 ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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