"I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action."
―Henri Bergson
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"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
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"Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life."
―Henri Bergson
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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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"The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions."
―Henri Bergson
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"Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself."
―Henri Bergson
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"Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn."
―Henri Bergson
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"Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization."
―Henri Bergson
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"Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation."
―Henri Bergson
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"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
―Henri Bergson
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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."
―Henri Bergson
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"All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death."
―Henri Bergson
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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?"
―Henri Bergson
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"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
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"It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles."
―Henri Bergson
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"To ease another's burden, help to carry it."
―Henri Bergson
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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."
―Henri Bergson
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"The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity."
―Henri Bergson
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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science"
―Henri Bergson
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"The universe... is a machine for the making of gods."
―Henri Bergson
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"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
―Henri Bergson
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"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks."
―Henri Bergson
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"It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible."
―Henri Bergson
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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."
―Henri Bergson
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"The motive power of democracy is love."
―Henri Bergson
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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."
―Henri Bergson
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
―Henri Bergson
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"Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed."
―Henri Bergson
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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."
―Henri Bergson
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"To drive out the darkness, bring in the light."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
―Henri Bergson
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"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
―Henri Bergson
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"I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life."
―Henri Bergson
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"One can always reason with reason."
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"There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language."
―Henri Bergson
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"All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original."
―Henri Bergson
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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."
―Henri Bergson
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"To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
―Henri Bergson
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"Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words."
―Henri Bergson
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
―Henri Bergson
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"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
―Henri Bergson
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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."
―Henri Bergson
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