Henri Bergson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.”

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

“Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”

“We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.”

“It seems that laughter needs an echo.”

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

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

“The motive power of democracy is love.”