Henri Bergson Quotes

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

Change, Exist, Mature

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

Reason, Existence, Creature

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
Henri Bergson

Body, Movement, Images

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

Intuition, While, Rest

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

Reality, Necessary, Intellect

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

Past, Nothing, Found

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson

Thought, Action, Act

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

Means, Act, Perception

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

Humanity, Learn, Genius

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

Change, Mind, Simple

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

Art, Attitude, Same

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
Henri Bergson

Past, Reality, Preserved

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

Making, Instinct, Using

It seems that laughter needs an echo.
Henri Bergson

Laughter, Seems, Needs

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson

Religion, Science, Mysticism

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Henri Bergson

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

Laughter, Fault, Vanity

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

Different, Two, Situation

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

Life, Growth, Divided

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

Body, Influence, Call

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

Thought, Against, Leave

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

Laughter, Find, Intention

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Henri Bergson

Making, Tools, Faculty

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

Life, Elements, Division

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
Henri Bergson

Laughter, Group

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 18, 1859

Died: January 4, 1941

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