Henri Bergson Quotes

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  The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Readiness, Eyes

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

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Change/Growth, Maturity, Philosophy

• The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Mind

• I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Mind

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

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Reality

• 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.

  Henri Bergson

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• Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Civilization

• 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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• To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Perception, Something

• I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Body

• 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

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  Tags in Freedom

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

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Being

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

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Reason

• When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

  Henri Bergson

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  Tags in Beginning

• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

  Henri Bergson

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• Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Religion

• We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

  Henri Bergson

  Tags in Regard

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

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Life

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

  Henri Bergson

  Tags in Contain

• The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Laughter

Henri Bergson (33)

Birth:	18th October, 1859
Death:	4th January, 1941
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Henri-Louis Bergson was born in Paris, France. He was a French philosopher. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented". In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur. He wrote several books include: Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Laughter, Creative Evolution, Mind-Energy, Duration and Simultaneity, and The Creative Mind.

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