I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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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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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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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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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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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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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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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