When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
HENRI BERGSONSex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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