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Henri Bergson (Philosopher)

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson change
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
— Henri Bergson reason
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
— Henri Bergson science
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
— Henri Bergson action
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
— Henri Bergson laughter
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
— Henri Bergson life
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
— Henri Bergson art
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
— Henri Bergson past
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson reality
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
— Henri Bergson humanity
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
— Henri Bergson men
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
— Henri Bergson lies
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
— Henri Bergson self
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
— Henri Bergson intuition
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
— Henri Bergson change
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
— Henri Bergson laughter
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
— Henri Bergson philosophy
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
— Henri Bergson art
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
— Henri Bergson laughter
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
— Henri Bergson civilization
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
— Henri Bergson men
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
— Henri Bergson life
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.
— Henri Bergson life
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
— Henri Bergson laughter

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