"Realism is in the work when idealism is……" — Henri Bergson
"Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality."
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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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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
— Beck
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new…
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed…
— Sandra Bullock
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Physical contact is a human necessity.
— David Byrne
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