Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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