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Quote of Henri Bergson - Think like a man of action...


Biography - Henri Bergson:

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

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


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



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Man muss wie ein denkender Mensch handeln und wie ein handelnder Mensch denken.

French
Il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action.




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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.

It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

In conversation one ought to follow closely what is being said; in the field of impulse to follow what is happening; in the latter case to see immediately what is the object of reference, in the former to mark closely the meaning expressed.




Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


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.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





I think, therefore I am.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.





Men should strive to think much and know little.











Quotes for: action


Quotes

Quotes about action:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.





Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.











Quotes for: Man


Quotes

Quotes about man, all human beings:


Man is the future of man.





No man is weak by choice.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.











Quotes

Henri Bergson also said...


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.





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












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