The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
HENRI BERGSON
Action 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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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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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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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