The motive power of democracy is love.
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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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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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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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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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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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