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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSON

Echo Laughter Need
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
HENRI BERGSON

Belong Divine God Himself Love
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
HENRI BERGSON

Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
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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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
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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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSON

Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSON

Mystic Popular Religion Science
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Myself Thinking

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