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 birth cannot centre destined move object
My body, an object destined to move other objects, is, then, a centre of action ; it cannot give birth to a representation.
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
cure fault french-scientist laughable vanity
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
against consciousness earliest fain follows french-scientist infancy join leaning leave portals present
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.