To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
HENRI BERGSONACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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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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Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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