Creature Endowed Quotes by Henri Bergson

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• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
• Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
• Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
• To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
• Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized…
• And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
• You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements…
• In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
• The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
• In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our…
• A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and…

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