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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
Henry Bergson
Henri Louis Bergson
Berxon
Intelligence
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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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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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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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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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The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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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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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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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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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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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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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
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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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