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 BERGSONIt 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.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
-
-
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSON -
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSON -
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSON -
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
HENRI BERGSON -
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
HENRI BERGSON -
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
HENRI BERGSON -
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSON -
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSON -
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
HENRI BERGSON -
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 -
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON -
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
HENRI BERGSON -
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
HENRI BERGSON -
The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSON -
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