All Henri Bergson Quotes
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.
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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.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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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.
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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.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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