"Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization." — Henri Bergson

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization. - Henri Bergson

"Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization."

— Henri Bergson

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64 Quotes by Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and…
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what…
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude,…
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 more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation… — Hannah Arendt
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words… — Margaret Atwood
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's… — Aaliyah
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of… — Rachel Bilson
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. — Otto von Bismarck
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of… — Sade Adu
Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone. — Jo Brand
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to… — Jacob Bronowski
With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is… — Chris Brown
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as… — Lindsey Buckingham

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