Quote of Henri Bergson - All our analyses show us, in...

Biography - Henri Bergson:

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

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

Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution

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Source: Creative Evolution

Wikisource - Bergson - L'Évolution créatrice (fr)

Translation

(French, German)

Toutes nos analyses nous montrent dans la vie un effort pour remonter la pente que la matière descend.

Henri Bergson - L'Évolution créatrice

Alle Analysen zeigen das Leben als eine Anstrengung, den Abhang zurückzuerklimmen, von dem die Materie hinuntergesunken ist.

Henri Bergson - Schöpferische Entwicklung

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi /

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

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

Henry David Thoreau /

All about life...

Quotes for: matter

Matter remains, and form is lost.

Pierre de Ronsard /

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Johannes Kepler /

matter

Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Denis Diderot /

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

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 /

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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