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Quotes by Henri Bergson

The brain's function is to choose from the past, to diminish it, to simplify it, but not to preserve it

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
 
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to exist is to change,
to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
 
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To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
Source: Le Reve (The Dream), 1901
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
 
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
 
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The vital spirit. L'élan vital

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
Source: L'Evolution Créatrice (Creative Evolution), 1907, ch. 1
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There is, beneath these sharply cut crystals and this frozen surface, a continuous flux which is not comparable to any flux I have ever seen. There is a succession of states, each of which anounces that which follows and contains that which precedes it. . . .

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
Source: An Introduction to Metaphysics, 1903
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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.

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
 
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