It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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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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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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