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Which Quotes by Henri Bergson
- To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
- In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which…
- 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…
- 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 is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
- Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
- Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
- 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…
- 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…
- We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which…
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