Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSONGenius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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