Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Spirit 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.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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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 major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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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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