Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSONA situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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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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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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