Darwin’s theory of evolution pointed to... by Henri Bergson | We Heart Quotes

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Darwin’s theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Power Love

The motive power of democracy is love.

- Henri Bergson

Thought Man

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

- Henri Bergson

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

- Henri Bergson

Mind Will

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

- 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

Perception

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

- Henri Bergson

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