The question is precisely to know whethe... by Henri Bergson | We Heart Quotes

Time philosopher French Nobel Prize Creativity

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

- Henri Bergson

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

- Henri Bergson

Genius Humanity

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

- Henri Bergson

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

- Henri Bergson

Time Being

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

- Henri Bergson

Present Thought

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

- Henri Bergson

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