The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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One can always reason with reason.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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 only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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Laughter 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.
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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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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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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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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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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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