Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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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.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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 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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