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The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.

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
Machine
Gods
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Universe
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... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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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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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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The motive power of democracy is love
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Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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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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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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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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The vital spirit. L'élan vital
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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ACT as men of thought THINK as men of action.
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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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