"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and……" — Henri Bergson
"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
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64 Quotes by Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson has 64 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many…
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There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are…
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing…
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that…
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
— Rudyard Kipling
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The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man;…
— Thomas Huxley
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What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing…
— Richard Serra
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Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web…
— Boomer Esiason
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One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the…
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The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision…
— Charles Tupper
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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses,…
— Fredric Jameson
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We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
— Paul Klee
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