Quotes by Henri Bergson

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

#Henri Bergson

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

#Henri Bergson

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

#Henri Bergson

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to...

#Henri Bergson

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

#Henri Bergson

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which...

#Henri Bergson

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but...

#Henri Bergson

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

#Henri Bergson

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

#Henri Bergson

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

#Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

#Henri Bergson

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

#Henri Bergson