In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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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 [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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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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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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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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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 ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of 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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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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