Quote of Henri Bergson - The idea of the future, pregnant...

Biography - Henri Bergson:

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

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

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

Note

Short form: "The idea of the future is more fruitful than the future itself."

Source: Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

Wikisource - Bergson - Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (fr)

Translation

(French, German)

L'idée de l'avenir, grosse d'une infinité de possibles, est donc plus féconde que l'avenir lui-même, et c'est pourquoi l'on trouve plus de charme à l'espérance qu'à la possession, au rêve qu'à la réalité.

Henri Bergson - Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience

Die Idee der Zukunft, die eine Unendlichkeit von Möglichem in ihrem Schoß birgt, ist daher fruchtbarer als die Zukunft und darum wohnt der Hoffnung ein größerer Zauber inne als dem Besitz, dem Traum als der Realität.

Henri Bergson - Zeit und Freiheit

Quotes about the future:

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

Seneca /

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle /

future

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 about hope:

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Torquato Tasso /

hope

Hope stole into my heart against my will.

Jean Racine - Phèdre /

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

Don't despair.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes /

hope

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon /

hope

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Friedrich Schiller /

All about hope...

Quotes for: dream

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau /

Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Gustav Jung /

dream

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams /

Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

Alfred de Musset - À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles /

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau /

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle /

All dream quotes...

Quotes about idea:

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain /

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald /

There is something real in ideas, through which the true are distinguished from the false.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus de intellectus emendatione /

idea

An idea is a meteor.

Victor Hugo /

idea

Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

idea

For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.

Gustave Le Bon - The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind /

All about idea...

Quotes for: Infinity

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

One thought, fills immensity.

William Blake /

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl Popper /

Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.

Claude Debussy /

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary /

All Infinity quotes...

Quotes for: reality

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Alan Watts /

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

André Comte-Sponville - Impromptus /

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.'

Richard Phillips Feynman

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 /

to choose

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 /

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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