Author: Henri Bergson

Quotes

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

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

- Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

- 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

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

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

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

- 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

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

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