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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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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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