I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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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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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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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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