Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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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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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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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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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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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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