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Henri Bergson

Quote of Henri Bergson - Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions...


Biography - Henri Bergson:

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

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.



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Quotes for: freedom


Quotes

Quotes about freedom:


There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.





One is not born, but rather becomes, free.





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.











Quotes

Quotes for: movement


Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?





Never confuse movement with action.





Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.





Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.





Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.





Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.











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.





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.





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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