Henri Bergson

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

— Henri Bergson

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

— Henri Bergson

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

— Henri Bergson

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic…

— Henri Bergson

Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the…

— Henri Bergson

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

— Henri Bergson

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its…

— Henri Bergson

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and…

— Henri Bergson

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves,…

— Henri Bergson

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a…

— Henri Bergson

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

— Henri Bergson

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

— Henri Bergson

“What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to…

— Henri Bergson

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

— Henri Bergson

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

— Henri Bergson

“Darwin’s theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though”

— Henri Bergson

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers…

— Henri Bergson

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

— Henri Bergson

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

— Henri Bergson

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

— Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

— Henri Bergson

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

— Henri Bergson

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here…

— Henri Bergson

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,…

— Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

— Henri Bergson