French philosopher (1859-1941)
To know how to deal with the present and to guard against worry and fear--that is true wisdom and the ultimate aim of philosophy.
HENRI BERGSON
The Philosophy of Poetry
Science has equipped man in less than fifty years with more tools than he had made during the thousands of years he had lived on earth. Each new machine being for man a new organ -- an artificial organ -- his body became suddenly and prodigiously increased in size, without his soul being at the same time able to dilate to the dimensions of his body.
HENRI BERGSON
Centennial of Engineering: History and Proceedings of Symposia: 1852-1952
Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.
HENRI BERGSON
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
I pass from state to state. I am warm or cold, I am merry or sad, I work or I do nothing, I look at what is around me or I think of something else. Sensations, feelings, volitions, ideas -- such are the changes into which my existence is divided and which color it in turns. I change, then, without ceasing.
HENRI BERGSON
Creative Evolution
Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.
HENRI BERGSON
The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
The human mind is so constructed that it cannot begin to understand the new until it has done everything in its power to relate it to the old.
HENRI BERGSON
The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSON
Selections from Bergson
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSON
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.
HENRI BERGSON
Time and Free Will