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

Quote by Henri Bergson

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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

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...

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

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

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

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

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

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 motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty...

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty...

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...

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...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of...

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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

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

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...

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...

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to...

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to...