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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
Henri-Louis Bergson
H. Bergson
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Berxon
Keynote
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Appeals
Sex
Civilization
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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To ease another's burden, help to carry it.
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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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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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 universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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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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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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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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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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The motive power of democracy is love
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