"There are manifold tones of mental life, or,……" — Henri Bergson
"There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life."
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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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