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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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

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  Emotion, Obstacles, Spite

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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.

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  Heart, Unique, Feelings

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

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• To ease another's burden, help to carry it.

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  Ease, Helping, Burden

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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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• 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.

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  Art, Work, Personality

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

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  Light, Darkness

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• Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

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  Wisdom, Science, Intelligence

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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.

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  Responsibility, Men, Hands

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

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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.

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  Art, Communication, Reality

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Perception, Movement

  Henri Bergson (2007). “Matter and Memory”, p.332, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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  Love, Divine, Belonging

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

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  Laughter, Humble, Vanity

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• I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

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  Believe, Creativity, I Believe

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• One can always reason with reason.

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  Reason, Mathematician

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

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  Men, Thinking, Action

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• Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

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  Humanity, Genius, Force

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• There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

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  Philosophy, Everyday, Language

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

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  Reality, Soul, Realism

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