Quote of Henri Bergson - Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions...
Biography - Henri Bergson:
French philosopher.
Born: 1859 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1859 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
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.
See also...
Quotes about freedom:
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.
Quotes for: movement
Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
Quotes for: perception
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
Henri Bergson also said...
Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.
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