"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary……" — Henri Bergson
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
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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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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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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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More Apprehension Quotes
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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