The motive power of democracy is love.
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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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