Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
HENRI BERGSONThere are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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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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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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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.
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One can always reason with reason.
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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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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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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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