Mysticism Quote by Henri Bergson Download Open image “Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science” — Henri Bergson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mysticism Religion Science
Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays. — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the… — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. If there is a way of grasping a reality in absolute rather than relative terms, of entering into it rather than taking up positions on it, of seizing hold of it without any… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
“But, then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment, since there is no consciousness without memory, and no continuation of a state without the addition, to the present feeling, of the memory of past moments. It is this which constitutes duration. Inner duration is the continuous life… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image