The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSONHowever spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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 urging the manufacture.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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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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