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
philosophical body movement
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
philosophical mind tasks
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
philosophical mysticism
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
philosophical simple mind
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
philosophical giving movement
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
laughter philosophical echoes
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
philosophical past reality
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
philosophical tools faculty
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
philosophical democracy motive
The motive power of democracy is love
inspirational life philosophical
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
action aspects exactly influence itself lay limits matter measures moment objects occupies organs parts prepare thus virtual
The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold: our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements.
act means perceive perception
To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
call external french-scientist images transmit
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.