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.
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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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