Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergsonwas a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that the processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 October 1859
CountryFrance
philosophical body movement
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
time register
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
war men europe
Europe 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.
past survival desire
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.
intuition natural-instinct faculty
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
reality soul realism
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
believe creativity i-believe
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
ease helping burden
To ease another's burden, help to carry it.
light darkness
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
wisdom intelligence natural
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
army animal men
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.
memories views space
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, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.
thinking men action
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
mean perception perceive
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.