Henri Bergson Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.”

“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.”

“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.”