The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSONWherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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?
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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 major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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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