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The motive power of democracy is love
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
Motive
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Love
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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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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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ACT as men of thought THINK as men of action.
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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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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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