Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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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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