It is emotion that drives the intelligen... by Henri Bergson | We Heart Quotes

Time philosopher French Nobel Prize Creativity

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

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Sex

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

- Henri Bergson

Intention

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

- Henri Bergson

Past

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

- Henri Bergson

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

- Henri Bergson

Echo

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

- 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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