Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergsonwas a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that the processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 October 1859
CountryFrance
life elements association
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
philosophical past reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
laughter becoming force
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
laughter humble vanity
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
obstacles emotion spite
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
art work personality
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
philosophical democracy motive
The motive power of democracy is love
laughter
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
moving action habit
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
independent two different
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
reason mathematician
One can always reason with reason.
ideas
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
intuition analysis instinct
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.