There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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