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
ideas
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
laughter
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
intuition analysis instinct
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
philosophical democracy motive
The motive power of democracy is love
laughter becoming force
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
philosophical past reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
obstacles emotion spite
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
laughter philosophical echoes
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
philosophical giving movement
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
philosophical mysticism
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
philosophical simple mind
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
spirit
The vital spirit. L'élan vital
imagination vision perception
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.