Henri Bergson

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#group #laughter #our

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#feeds #form #freedom #matter #movements

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#explore #investigate #major #mind #task

The motive power of democracy is love. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#love #motive #power

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creator #expressed #feeling #greater #joy

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

— Henri Bergson

#everyday #language #nothing #philosophy #said

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#characteristic #compensate #confer #inferiority #intelligence

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#being #inscribed #lives #open #register

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. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#external #fatiguing #imagination #life #make