Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because its shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not. – Sebastian Junger