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Quotes from The Two Sources of Morality and Religion — Henri Bergson

1859–1941 France

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This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

The universe is a machine for making gods.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

The remembrance of forbidden fruit is the earliest thing in the memory of each of us, as it is in that of mankind.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

His intelligence and his imagination will use the teachings of the theologians to express in words what he experiences, and in material images what he sees spiritually.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

The spectacle of what religions have been in the past, of what certain religions still are to-day, is indeed humiliating for human intelligence. What a farrago of error and folly!'

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

The open society is one that is deemed in principle to embrace all humanity.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

People talk, indeed, of a "primitive mentality", as, for example, to-day that of the inferior races, and in days gone by that of humanity in general, at whose door the responsibility for superstition should be laid.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henri Bergson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.