"There is nothing in philosophy which could not……" — Henri Bergson

"There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language."

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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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. — Christian Bale
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only… — Albert Bandura
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision… — Omar N. Bradley
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like… — Sophia Bush
I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. — David Byrne
Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not… — Kirk Cameron
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery. — Deepak Chopra

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