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.
HENRI BERGSONThe present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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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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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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