To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSONReligion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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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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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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 varying the manufacture.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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