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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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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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One can always reason with reason.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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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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The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.
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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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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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The vital spirit. L'élan vital
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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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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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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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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 believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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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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... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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