The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSONIn laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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One can always reason with reason.
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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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 varying the manufacture.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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