Author: Henri Bergson

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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