black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

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
The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSON

Democracy Love Motive Power
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

Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSON

Body Influence Movement Myself Return
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON

Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSON

Guard Laughter Ourselves
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSON

Act Action Man Thinking
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSON

Past Preserve Reality
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

Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSON

Movement River Source Stream Wind
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSON

Association Division Element Life Process
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSON

Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
HENRI BERGSON

Belong Divine God Himself Love
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

Action Beginning Body Image Place State
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSON

Darkness Drive Light
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON

Intellectual Necessary Reality

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henri Bergson Quotes