You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Quote by Henri Bergson

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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 reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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 motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

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...

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...

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

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...

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...

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.