I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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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