Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
HENRI BERGSONOur laughter is always the laughter of a group.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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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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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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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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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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