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Henri Bergson Quotes

«Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.»
«To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.»
«The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Eyes | Keywords: comprehend
«Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science»
«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
«Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.»
«The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Past, Time | Keywords: contains
«To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.»
«The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Vanity | Keywords: laughable
«In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.»

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