Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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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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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 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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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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