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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. — Henri Bergson

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?" — Bob Brookmeyer

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life. — Henri Bergson

To ease another's burden, help to carry it. — Henri Bergson

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. — Henri Bergson

To perceive means to immobilize ... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. — Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. — Henri Bergson

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Henri Bergson

Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself. — Henri Bergson

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action. — Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles. — Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson

That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter — Henri Bergson

The world that our senses and our consciousness habitually acquaint us with is now nothing more than the shadow of itself; and it is cold like death. — Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. — Henri Bergson

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo. — Henri Bergson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Henri Bergson

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. — Henri Bergson

One can always reason with reason. — Henri Bergson

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson

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. — Henri Bergson

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ... — Henri Bergson

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization. — Henri Bergson

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. — Henri Bergson

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life. — Henri Bergson

No two moments are identical in a conscious being — Henri Bergson

THE INTENTION OF LIFE IS NOT TO REMAIN, BUT TO EVOLVE TO SOMETHING BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE AT EVERY STAGE, AND FINALLY, TO SOMETHING WONDERFUL. — James Bergson

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. — Henri Bergson

The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. — Henri Bergson

What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision. — Henri Bergson

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson — David Allen

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. — Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. — Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. — Henri Bergson

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson

Many people come and go,
knowing not why they ever did so.
A miserable thing can it be -
unconscious of why thy Creator made thee. — James Bergson

Time is invention and nothing else. — Henri Bergson

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary. — Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. — Henri Bergson

The motive power of democracy is love. — Henri Bergson

Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though — Henri Bergson

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. — Henri Bergson

Truth, as Bergson knew, is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it. — Donald Barthelme

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. — Jean Piaget

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. — Henri Bergson

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words. — Henri Bergson

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. — Henri Bergson

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter. — Henri Bergson

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. — Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. — Henri Bergson

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light. — Henri Bergson