Henri Bergson Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• 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

  41 Copy quote

• Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

  Henri Bergson

  Moving, Action, Habit

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Key Writings”, p.406, Bloomsbury Publishing

  14 Copy quote

• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

  Henri Bergson

  Unique, Order, Intuition

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  33 Copy quote

• 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

  Art, Reality, Order

  27 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Humanity, Genius, Force

  8 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Ease, Helping, Burden

  8 Copy quote

• The motive power of democracy is love

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Democracy, Motive

  35 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Believe, Creativity, I Believe

  9 Copy quote

• 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".

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• One can always reason with reason.

  Henri Bergson

  Reason, Mathematician

  15 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Ideas

  35 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Soul, Realism

  11 Copy quote

• Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Mysticism

  Two Sources of Morality and Religion ch. 3 (1932) (translation by R. Ashley Audra and Cloudesley Brereton)

  25 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Past, Reality

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

  17 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Life, Philosophical, Doe

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.197, A&C Black

  13 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Intuition, Analysis

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

  25 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophy, Everyday, Language

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

  13 Copy quote

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

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Mind, Tasks

  10 Copy quote

• Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

  Henri Bergson

  Children, Hands, Trying

  Henri Bergson (1949). “An Introduction to Metaphysics”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

• There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

  Henri Bergson

  Psychics, Degrees, Different

  6 Copy quote

• Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

  Henri Bergson

  War, Men, Self

  5 Copy quote

• I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.

  Henri Bergson

  Time, Philosophy, Taken

  7 Copy quote

Page 2 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin