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Henri Bergson Quotes
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. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation. - Henri Bergson Quotes
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. - Henri Bergson Quotes
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. - Henri Bergson Quotes
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. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. - Henri Bergson Quotes
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. - Henri Bergson Quotes
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. - Henri Bergson Quotes
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. - Henri Bergson Quotes
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. - Henri Bergson Quotes
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. - Henri Bergson Quotes
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. - Henri Bergson Quotes
It seems that laughter needs an echo. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. - Henri Bergson Quotes
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 Quotes
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. - Henri Bergson Quotes
The motive power of democracy is love. - Henri Bergson Quotes
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. - Henri Bergson Quotes
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. - Henri Bergson Quotes
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. - Henri Bergson Quotes
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. - Henri Bergson Quotes
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson Quotes
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson Quotes
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Absolute Absolutely Action Always Analysis Baffles Calculation
Comic Conditions Creates Different Each Events Given
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