Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONSome other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONHomo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSONThere 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 BERGSONI would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
HENRI BERGSONTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSONEurope is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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.
HENRI BERGSONIt is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
HENRI BERGSONI cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
HENRI BERGSONTo perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
HENRI BERGSONThe emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSONWhen 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 BERGSONThe only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON