Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed... by Henri Bergson | We Heart Quotes

Time philosopher French Nobel Prize Creativity

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

- Henri Bergson

Change

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

Time Being

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

- Henri Bergson

Vision Will Life

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.

- Henri Bergson

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

- Henri Bergson

Sex

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

- Henri Bergson

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