Only those ideas that are least truly ou... by Henri Bergson | We Heart Quotes

Time philosopher French Nobel Prize Creativity

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Past

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

- Henri Bergson

Intellect

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

- Henri Bergson

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

- Henri Bergson

Life

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

- Henri Bergson

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

Change Mind

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

- Henri Bergson

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