Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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