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
creativity joy feelings
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
inspirational life philosophical
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
dream reality ideas
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
art communication reality
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
motivational spiritual heart
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.
inspirational motivational change
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
action aspects exactly influence itself lay limits matter measures moment objects occupies organs parts prepare thus virtual
The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold: our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements.
body external gives images influences movement
And I also see how this body influences external images : it gives back movement to them.
essential function gods machine universe
The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
men essence pay
It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.
art reality order
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
love divine belonging
... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.