Henri Bergson Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• 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

  House, Perception, Body

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Matter and Memory”, p.150, Courier Corporation

• 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".

• 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

• 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

  Freedom, Perception, Movement

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

• When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

  Henri Bergson

  Memories, Views, Space

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

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