The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSONThe universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
-
-
The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSON -
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
HENRI BERGSON -
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON -
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON -
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSON -
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
HENRI BERGSON -
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSON -
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSON -
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 -
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 -
Laughter 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 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 -
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSON -
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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