Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSONThe only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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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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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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