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.
HENRI BERGSONI believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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