black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Henri Bergson

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
HENRI BERGSON

Creation Expression Greatness Joy
One can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSON

Oneself Reason
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

Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
HENRI BERGSON

Belong Divine God Himself Love
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

Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSON

Appearance Civilization Sex
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSON

Guard Laughter Ourselves
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
HENRI BERGSON

God Machine Universe
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Myself Thinking
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Thinking
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSON

Darkness Drive Light
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

Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
HENRI BERGSON

Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
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

Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
HENRI BERGSON

Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henri Bergson Quotes