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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

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
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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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 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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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 motive power of democracy is love
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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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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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One can always reason with reason.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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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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The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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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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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 major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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The vital spirit. L'élan vital
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Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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