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

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Mind, Tasks

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

  Henri Bergson

  Nature, Men, Emotion

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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.

  Henri Bergson

  Freedom, Perception, Movement

  Henri Bergson (2007). “Matter and Memory”, p.332, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

  Henri Bergson

  Believe, Creativity, I Believe

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

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  Life, Philosophical, Doe

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.197, A&C Black

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• Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

  Henri Bergson

  Sex, Civilization, Appeals

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.335, A&C Black

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• The motive power of democracy is love

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Democracy, Motive

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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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  Rivers, Bed, Movement

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One can always reason with reason.

  Henri Bergson

  Reason, Mathematician

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• Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Mysticism

  Two Sources of Morality and Religion ch. 3 (1932) (translation by R. Ashley Audra and Cloudesley Brereton)

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

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  Unique, Order, Intuition

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

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  Moving, Action, Habit

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Key Writings”, p.406, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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  Philosophical, Past, Reality

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

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  Science, Past, Survival

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

  Henri Bergson

  Humanity, Genius, Force

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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.

  Henri Bergson

  Mean, Views, Essence

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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.

  Henri Bergson

  War, Men, Self

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

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  Philosophical, Intuition, Analysis

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

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  Art, Reality, Order

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• There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

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  Philosophy, Everyday, Language

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

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  Psychics, Degrees, Different

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• All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

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  Army, Animal, Men

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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  Reality, Soul, Realism

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• Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

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  Children, Hands, Trying

  Henri Bergson (1949). “An Introduction to Metaphysics”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

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• There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter

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