Henri Bergson Quotes
Enjoy the top 87 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Henri Bergson.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.
— Henri Bergson
Time is invention and nothing else.
— Henri Bergson
That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter
— Henri Bergson
“The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ...”
— Henri Bergson
No two moments are identical in a conscious being
— Henri Bergson
— Henri Bergson
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
— Henri Bergson
“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.”
— Henri Bergson
“Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.”
— Henri Bergson
“Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.”
— Henri Bergson
— Henri Bergson
— Henri Bergson
“The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.”
— Henri Bergson
“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.
— Henri Bergson
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
— Henri Bergson
“It seems that laughter needs an echo.”
— Henri Bergson
“The motive power of democracy is love.”
— Henri Bergson
— Henri Bergson
— Henri Bergson
“And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.”
— Henri Bergson
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
— Henri Bergson
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
— Henri Bergson
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
— Henri Bergson
“I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.”
— Henri Bergson
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
— Henri Bergson
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
— Henri Bergson
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