Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
HENRI BERGSONI would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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