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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
H. Bergson
Henry Bergson
Henri Louis Bergson
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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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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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 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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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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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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The vital spirit. L'élan vital
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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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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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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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The motive power of democracy is love
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Henri Bergson
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
Henri Bergson
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.
Henri Bergson
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
Henri Bergson
ACT as men of thought THINK as men of action.
Henri Bergson
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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