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Henri-Louis Bergson (French: [bɛʁksɔn]; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until World War II.

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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized. . . we shall have war.

War, Men, Self, Man, Overpopulated

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

Fault, Humble, Laughter, Vanity

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

Time, Umpires, Register, Wherever, Open, Inscribed

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Echo, Happiness, Laughter, Needs, Philosophical

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Characterized, Intelligence, Natural, Science, Wisdom

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Causes, Contains, Effect, Past, Present, Time

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

Humanity, Genius, Force, Inertia, Learn

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Accepted, Art, Order, Practical, Reality, Socially

To perceive means to immobilize. . . we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Act, Mean, Outruns, Perceive, Perception

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Dream, Fruitful, Future, Ideas, Pregnant, Reality

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. If there is a way of grasping a reality in absolute rather than relative terms, of entering into it rather than taking up positions on it, of seizing hold of it without any translation or symbolism, then that way is metaphysics itself.

Absolute, Heart, Reality, Taking, Unique

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

Creation, Creativity, Feeling, Happiness, Joy, Laughter

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.

Imagination, Perception, Vision, Make, Pure, External

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Art, Communication, Consciousness, Reality, Senses

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

Children, Hands, Trying, See, Like, Object

. . . divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

Belonging, Divine, God, Love

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.

Ignorance, Instead, Motivational, Philosophy, Spiritual, Systems

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

Adequately, Expressed, Ideas, Words

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

Century, Mind, Philosophical, Subsoil, Tasks, Unconscious

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

Mean, Views, Essence, Remote, View, Carrying

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