Henri Bergson Quotes


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


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


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


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


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


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


There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. - Henri Bergson


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


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


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


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