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.
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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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 major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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