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.
HENRI BERGSONIntuition 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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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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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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