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The universe is a machine for ...

The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

In short, intelligence, consid...

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

One can always reason with rea...

One can always reason with reason.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

Realism is in the work when id...

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 118 quotes

The only cure for vanity is la...

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

It seems that laughter needs a...

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

The motive power of democracy ...

The motive power of democracy is love

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

In reality, the past is preser...

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

I cannot escape the objection ...

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

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

I see plainly how external ima...

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

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

Religion is to mysticism what ...

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

I believe that the time given ...

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

Is it astonishing that, like c...

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?

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

Spirit borrows from matter the...

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 118 quotes

Our laughter is always the lau...

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

There is nothing in philosophy...

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

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

If reality impacted directly o...

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

...Men do not sufficiently rea...

...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

However spontaneous it seems, ...

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

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

Laughter is, above all, a corr...

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Henri Bergson 118 quotes

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