To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
HENRI BERGSONACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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 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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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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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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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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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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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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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