“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.”
— Henri Bergson
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In just the same way the thousands
“In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.”
— Henri Bergson
Author: Henri Bergson
Category: attitude
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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial
“Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.”
— Henri Bergson
Author: Henri Bergson
Category: intelligence
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using
“Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”
— Henri Bergson
Author: Henri Bergson
Category: intelligence
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To exist is to change, to change
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
Author: Henri Bergson
Category: change
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You will obtain a vision of matter
“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
Author: Henri Bergson
Category: imagination
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is
“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.”
— Henri Bergson
Author: Henri Bergson
Category: religion
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on
“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
Author: Henri Bergson
Category: freedom
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