I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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 urging the manufacture.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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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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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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