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.
HENRI BERGSONSome other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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 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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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