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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
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
— Henri Bergson
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
— Henri Bergson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
— Henri Bergson
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
— Henri Bergson
What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.
— Henri Bergson
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
One can always reason with reason.
— Henri Bergson
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
— Henri Bergson
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
— Henri Bergson
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
— Henri Bergson
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
— Henri Bergson
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
— Henri Bergson
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.
— Henri Bergson
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
— Henri Bergson
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
— Henri Bergson
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
— Henri Bergson
The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ...
— Henri Bergson
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
— 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
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
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
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
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
— Henri Bergson
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
— Henri Bergson
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
— Henri Bergson
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
— Henri Bergson
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
— Henri Bergson
No two moments are identical in a conscious being
— Henri Bergson