Henri Bergson

The universe . . . is a machine for the making of gods.

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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

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

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

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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

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

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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L’élan vital.

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

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