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

Quote by Henri Bergson

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Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

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

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

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

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

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

The motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

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

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

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...