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Henri Bergson quotes

French Philosopher October 18, 1859 – January 4, 1941

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Henri Bergson quote: "The motive power of democracy is love."
The motive power of democracy is love. Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson quote: "There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a..."
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. Henri Bergson
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life. Henri Bergson
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson quote: "Life does not proceed by the association and addition of..."
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. Henri Bergson
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. Henri Bergson
... Men do not sufficiently realizethat their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort requiredfor fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods. Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson quote: "I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind,..."
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. Henri Bergson
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality. Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson quote: "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to..."
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view. Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson quote: "The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past..."
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouing the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson quote: "Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register..."
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson quote: "The universe is a machine for the making of Gods."
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. Henri Bergson

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