Author: Henri Bergson

Quotes

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.

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.

- Henri Bergson

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.

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.

- Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

- Henri Bergson

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.

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.

- Henri Bergson

The motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

- Henri Bergson

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

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

- Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

- Henri Bergson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

- Henri Bergson

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