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.
HENRI BERGSONAnd I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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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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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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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry 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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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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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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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