And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSONAction on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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