It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
HENRI BERGSONIt seems that laughter needs an echo.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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The motive power of democracy is love.
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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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 idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in 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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