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
action birth cannot centre destined move object
My body, an object destined to move other objects, is, then, a centre of action ; it cannot give birth to a representation.
philosophical body movement
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
rivers movement bed
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
perception movement matter
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
philosophical giving movement
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
body external gives images influences movement
And I also see how this body influences external images : it gives back movement to them.
cure fault french-scientist laughable vanity
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
against consciousness earliest fain follows french-scientist infancy join leaning leave portals present
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
call external french-scientist images transmit
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
act means perceive perception
To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
intelligence tools faculty
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
nature men emotion
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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.
house perception body
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.