Quotes by Bergson, Henri L.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. >>

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has >>

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on c >>

Quotations about Instinct

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. >>

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instin >>

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than t >>

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

Bergson, Henri L.