One can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSONSpirit 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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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.
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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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