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

Quote by Henri Bergson

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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...

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...

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

The motive power of democracy is love

The motive power of democracy is love

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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...

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...

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...

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...