The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSONIs 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?
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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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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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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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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