The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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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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