Henri Bergson Quotes

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

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Faculty, Intellect

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

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  Time, Past, Causes

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

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• It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

  Henri Bergson

  Science, Past, Survival

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• 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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• 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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• The motive power of democracy is love

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Democracy, Motive

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• Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

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  Wisdom, Science, Intelligence

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• Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

  Henri Bergson

  Sex, Civilization, Appeals

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.335, A&C Black

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

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  Ideas

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

  Henri Bergson

  Light, Darkness

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• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

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  Art, Reality, Order

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• For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

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  Life, Essence, Creating

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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  Philosophical, Past, Reality

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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

  Imagination, Vision, Perception

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• It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

  Henri Bergson

  Mean, Views, Essence

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

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  Time, Umpires, Register

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

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