An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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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Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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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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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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There 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.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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