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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
Henri Bergson
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Henri Bergson
Age: 81 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 18
Died: 1941
Died: January 4
Philosopher
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Sociologist
Paris
France
Henri-Louis Bergson
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
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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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To ease another's burden, help to carry it.
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