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.
HENRI BERGSONWe regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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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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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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The motive power of democracy is love.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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