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Henri Bergson Quotes

«Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.»
«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.»
«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.»
«There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.»
«I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.»
«It seems that laughter needs an echo.»
«The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind»
«Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | Keywords: inscribed
«I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | Keywords: objection
«The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods»

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