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
humanity genius force
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
psychics different attention
There 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.
spirit
The vital spirit. L'élan vital
men inferiority characteristics
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.
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
philosophical giving movement
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
laughter philosophical echoes
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
laughter echoes mountain
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, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
life elements association
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
philosophical past reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
laughter becoming force
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
laughter humble vanity
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.