We are free when our actions emanate fro... by Henri Bergson

Time philosopher French Nobel Prize Creativity

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

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Change

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

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

- Henri Bergson

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

- 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

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

Sex

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

- Henri Bergson

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