ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSONWe are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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 present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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One can always reason with reason.
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