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From Quotes by Henri Bergson
- 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…
- 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…
- We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work…
- Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social…
- 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…
- Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
- It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot…
- 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…
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