The motive power of democracy is love

Quote by Henri Bergson

Topics: Democracy Quotes, Love Quotes, Power Quotes

The motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

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 present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect...

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

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

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.

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...

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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...

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...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they...

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...

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...