In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSONThe universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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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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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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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 see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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