Henri Bergson Quotes

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

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

  Henri Bergson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.

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• The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Laughter, Creativity

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• I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

  Henri Bergson's speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris, 1937.

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• Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Faculty, Intellect

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• Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

  Henri Bergson

  Doubt, Atheism, Reason

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• Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

  Henri Bergson

  Heart, Unique, Feelings

  "Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the desert". Book by Britta Benke, January 27, 1995.

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

  Henri Bergson

  Emotion, Obstacles, Spite

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• To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

  Henri Bergson

  Light, Darkness

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

  Henri Bergson

  Time, Past, Causes

  'L'Evolution crèatrice' (1907) ch. 1

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• Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• 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

  Responsibility, Men, Hands

  "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion". Book by Henri Bergson, 1932.

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• Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

  Henri Bergson

  Wisdom, Science, Intelligence

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• 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

  Art, Communication, Reality

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• We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Work, Personality

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• Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

  Henri Bergson

  Time, Umpires, Register

  Henri Bergson, Arthur Mitchell (1998). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Humble, Vanity

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• ... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

  Henri Bergson

  Love, Divine, Belonging

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• The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

  Henri Bergson

  Rivers, Bed, Movement

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Mean, Perception, Perceive

  "Matter and Memory".

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

  Henri Bergson

  Machines, Universe

  "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion". Book by Henri Bergson, 1932.

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

  Henri Bergson

  Ideas

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• ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

  Henri Bergson

  Men, Thinking, Action

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• Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

  Henri Bergson

  Moving, Action, Habit

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Key Writings”, p.406, Bloomsbury Publishing

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