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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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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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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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ACT as men of thought THINK as men of action.
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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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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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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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The motive power of democracy is love
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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.
Henri Bergson
