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Inspirational Quotes by Henri Bergson
- To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
- Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
- The motive power of democracy is love
- In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
- Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
- Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
- Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
- The vital spirit. L'élan vital
- The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
- One can always reason with reason.
- The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.
- Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento