You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
HENRI BERGSONIt seems that laughter needs an echo.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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 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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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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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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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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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 urging the manufacture.
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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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