Quotes by Henri Bergson

About Henri Bergson:

Henri-Louis Bergson was 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.
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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...

Henri Bergson

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

Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

Henri Bergson

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.

Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Bergson

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

Henri Bergson

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Henri Bergson

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

Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

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

Henri Bergson

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson

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

Henri Bergson

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

Henri Bergson

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

Henri Bergson

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Henri Bergson

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

Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Henri Bergson

Author Bio

  • NameHenri Bergson
  • Descriptionphilosopher from France
  • AliasesHenri-Louis Bergson
  • BornOctober 18, 1859
  • DiedJanuary 4, 1941
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Officer Of The Legion Of Honour; Grand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour