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ACT as men of thought THINK as men of action.

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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
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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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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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The motive power of democracy is love
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To ease another's burden, help to carry it.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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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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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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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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