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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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...

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is...

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is...

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...

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...

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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,...

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...