Quotes by Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

… divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

Belonging

Divine

Love

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.

Different

Independent

Two

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Action

Men

Thinking

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

Action

Habit

Moving

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

Animal

Army

Men

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Faith

Giving

Poetry

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

Analysis

Intuition

Philosophical

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

Intuition

Order

Unique

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

Giving

Movement

Philosophical

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Art

Order

Reality

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Action

Analysis

Animal

Appeals

Army

Art

Atheism

Attitude

Bed

Believe

Belonging

Body

Burden

Causes

Change

Characteristics

Children

Civilization

Communication

Country

Creating

Creativity

Darkness

Definitions

Degrees

Democracy

Different

Divine

Doe

Doubt

Dream

Ease

Echoes

Emotion

Essence

Everyday

Faculty

Faith

Feelings

Force

Freedom

Genius

Giving

Habit

Hands

Happiness

Heart

Helping

House

Humanity

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Quotes by Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

… divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

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.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

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

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

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

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