Henri Bergson > Quotes

“The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ”
― Henri Bergson

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself eldlessly.”
― Henri Bergson

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
― Henri Bergson

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
― Henri Bergson

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson

“The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.”
― Henri Bergson

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouing the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson

“But, then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment, since there is no consciousness without memory, and no continuation of a state without the addition, to the present feeling, of the memory of past moments. It is this which constitutes duration. Inner duration is the continuous life of a memory which prolongs the past into the present, the present either containing within it in a distinct form the ceaselessly growing image of the past, or, more profoundly, showing by its continual change of quality the heavier and still heavier load we drag behind us as we grow older. Without this survival of the past into the present there would be no duration, but only instantaneity.”
― Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics

“شاهدو الحياة كمتفرج لامبالٍ : الكثير من المآسي تتحول إلى كوميديا”
― Henri Bergson

“L'humanité gémit, à demi écrasée sous le poids des progrès qu'elle a faits. Elle ne sait pas assez que son avenir dépend d'elle.”
― Henri Bergson

“Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.”
― Henri Bergson, Two Sources Of Morality And Religion

“Pour un être conscient, exister consiste à changer, changer à se mûrir, se mûrir à se créer indéfiniment soi-même.”
― Henri Bergson, Unknown Book 3299849

“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

“...Men do not sufficiently realize
that 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 required
for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet,
the essential function of the universe,
which is a machine for the making of gods.”
― Henri Bergson

“اللامبالاة هي بيئة الهزل الطبيعية”
― 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

“Sans doute une chute est toujours une chute, mais autre chose est de se laisser choir dans un puits parce qu’on regardait n’importe où ailleurs, autre chose y tomber parce qu’on visait une étoile. C’est bien une étoile que Don Quichotte contemplait.”
― Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic