Henri Bergson

Quote of Henri Bergson - Consciousness is a link between what...

Biography - Henri Bergson:

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

France

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

Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle

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La conscience est un trait d'union entre ce qui a été et ce qui sera, un pont jeté entre le passé et l'avenir.

Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle

Das Bewusstsein ist ein Bindeglied zwischen dem, was war und dem, was sein wird; eine Brücke zwischen der Vergangenheit und der Zukunft.

Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle

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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience; the time present of things future is expectation.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Quotes for: past

Quotes about the past:

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein /

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes /

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville /

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Quotes for: future

Quotes about the future:

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle /

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Man is the future of man.

Francis Ponge /

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein /

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

All about the future...

Quotes for: consciousness

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Gottfried Leibniz /

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

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Henri Bergson also said...

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

Henri Bergson /

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

Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution /

To choose, and therefore exclude.

Henri Bergson /

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

Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution /

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

Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness /

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution /

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