"I cannot escape the objection that there is……" — Henri Bergson
"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment"
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64 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.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and…
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what…
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude,…
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each…
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise…
— James Lane Allen
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Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove…
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We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
— Susan Jeffers
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is…
— Rajneesh
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which…
— John Lancaster Spalding
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We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion.…
— Dalai Lama
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As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as…
— Dalai Lama
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One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that…
— Heinrich Hertz
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So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid,…
— Rajneesh
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We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought…
— Unknown Author
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We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some…
— Mark E. Petersen
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