Quote by Henri Bergson
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and r

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

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

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

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Imagination
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson

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Vanity
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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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Perception
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? – Matt Drudge

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Freedom

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. – William Hague

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Freedom

Well, Im a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. – John Bolton

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Freedom

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison

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Freedom

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Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming. – Thia Megia

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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. – Sally Kirkland

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Poetry

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. – Henry Adams

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Trust

People do more from custom than from reason. – Source Unknown

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Customs