I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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