The motive power of democracy is love.

Quote by Henri Bergson

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

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

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...

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...

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt,...

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt,...

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...

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 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...

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity