"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which……" — Henri Bergson
"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
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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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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 sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
— George Horne
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The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while…
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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Genius Borrows nobly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like…
— Maya MacGuineas
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far…
— Matthew Continetti
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Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good…
— Bertrand Meyer
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Talent borrows, genius steals!
— Oscar Wilde
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Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It…
— Lee Ritenour
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary…
— Will Durant
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently…
— Michel de Montaigne
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