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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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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 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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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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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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 drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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