In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSONGenius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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