Bed Quote by Henri Bergson

“The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.”

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and…

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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…

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“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…

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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools,…

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived…

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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…

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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

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I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed…

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