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Henri Bergson Quote: “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.”

51. “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.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “By the sole fact of being accomplished, reality casts its shadow behind it into the indefinitely distant past: it thus seems to have been pre-existent to its own realization, in the form of a possible. From this results an error which vitiates our conception of the past; from this arises our claim to anticipate the future on every occasion.”

52. “By the sole fact of being accomplished, reality casts its shadow behind it into the indefinitely distant past: it thus seems to have been pre-existent to its own realization, in the form of a possible. From this results an error which vitiates our conception of the past; from this arises our claim to anticipate the future on every occasion.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.”

53. “In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “Social thought is unable not to keep its original structure.”

54. “Social thought is unable not to keep its original structure.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...”

55. “The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.”

56. “However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “It seems that laughter needs an echo.”

57. “It seems that laughter needs an echo.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.”

58. “I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.”

59. “I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.”

60. “The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.”

61. “What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.”

62. “Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.”

63. “Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “One can always reason with reason.”

64. “One can always reason with reason.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “Religion is a defensive reaction of nature against the dissolvent power of intelligence.”

65. “Religion is a defensive reaction of nature against the dissolvent power of intelligence.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “One currently and perhaps imprudently calls “reason” this conservative logic which governs thought in common; conversation greatly resembles conservation. It is there that it is at home. And there it exercises a legitimate authority. Theoretically, in fact, conversation should bear only upon things of the social life. And the essential object of society is to insert a certain fixity into universal mobility. Societies are just so many islands consolidated here and there in the ocean of becoming.”

66. “One currently and perhaps imprudently calls “reason” this conservative logic which governs thought in common; conversation greatly resembles conservation. It is there that it is at home. And there it exercises a legitimate authority. Theoretically, in fact, conversation should bear only upon things of the social life. And the essential object of society is to insert a certain fixity into universal mobility. Societies are just so many islands consolidated here and there in the ocean of becoming.”

— Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Quote: “You can predict an eclipse a thousand years hence, but you cannot predict what will happen when you pull a bulldog’s tail!”

67. “You can predict an eclipse a thousand years hence, but you cannot predict what will happen when you pull a bulldog’s tail!”

— Henri Bergson

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