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• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

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• You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

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• Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

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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 images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

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• We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

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• To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

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

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• The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

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• The motive power of democracy is love.

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• The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

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• Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

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• Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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• Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

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• Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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• Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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• Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

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• It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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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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• In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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Henri Bergson (33)

Birth:	18th October, 1859
Death:	4th January, 1941
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Henri-Louis Bergson was born in Paris, France. He was a French philosopher. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented". In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur. He wrote several books include: Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Laughter, Creative Evolution, Mind-Energy, Duration and Simultaneity, and The Creative Mind.

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