Henri Louis Bergson Quotes

To perceive means to immobilize...we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

There is nothing in philosophy that could not be said in everyday language.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

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.

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.

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.