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Henri Bergson Quotes

«Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Civilization, Sex | Keywords: keynote, sex appeal
«The motive power of democracy is love»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Democracy, Love, Power | Keywords: motive power
«In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.»
«Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.»
«For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.»
«Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.»
«There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.»
«The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold: our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements.»
«An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.»
«Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.»

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