Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
HENRI BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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 is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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 exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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