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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
H. Bergson
Henry Bergson
Henri Louis Bergson
Berxon
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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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One can always reason with reason.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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The vital spirit. L'élan vital
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To ease another's burden, help to carry it.
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