The eyes see only what the mind is prepa... by Henri Bergson | We Heart Quotes

Time philosopher French Nobel Prize Creativity

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Intelligence

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

- Henri Bergson

Cause Present Past Nothing

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

- Henri Bergson

Life

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

- Henri Bergson

Events

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

- 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

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

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