Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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