French - Philosopher | October 18, 1859 - January 4, 1941
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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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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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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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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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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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 laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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