"The universe is a machine for the making…" — Henri Bergson

"The universe is a machine for the making of Gods."

— Henri Bergson

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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.
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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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The… — Charles A. Beard
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. — Aeschylus
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? — Aeschylus
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? — Aeschylus
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his… — David Bowie
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely… — Dan Brown
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then… — Leon Battista Alberti
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. — Samuel Butler
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. — Taylor Caldwell

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