Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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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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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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