Henri Bergson Quotes

• The motive power of democracy is love.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Power

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

  Henri Bergson

  Tags in Intellect

• Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Laughter

• Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Life

• It seems that laughter needs an echo.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Laughter

• Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Intelligence

• In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Laughter

• In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Successive

• In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

  Henri Bergson

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

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Genius, Humanity

• 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.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Life

• A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

  Henri Bergson

  Tags in Situation

• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

  Henri Bergson

  Tags in Intuition, Doubt/Uncertainty

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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