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Henri Bergson

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Biography - Henri Bergson:

French philosopher.
Born: 1859 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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.



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Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: imagination


Quotes

Quotes for: imagination


Imagination is more important than knowledge.





Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.





Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.





Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?





Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.





All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.











Quotes

Quotes for: perception


All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.





To be is to be perceived or to perceive.





You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.





Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.





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.





Science is nothing but perception.











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Henri Bergson also said...


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.





To choose, and therefore exclude.





All our analyses show us, in life, an effort to remount the incline that matter descends.





To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.





Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.












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