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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

- Henri Bergson

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

- Henri Bergson

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

- Henri Bergson

Joy Feeling Life

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

- Henri Bergson

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.

- Henri Bergson

Events

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

- Henri Bergson

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