Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSONAn absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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One can always reason with reason.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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