In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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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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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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