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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

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Henri Bergson
Age: 81 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 18
Died: 1941
Died: January 4
Philosopher
Professor
Sociologist
Paris
France
Henri-Louis Bergson
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Berxon
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It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.
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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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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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ACT as men of thought THINK as men of action.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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 varying the manufacture.
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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.
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