Henri Bergson

“The spectacle of what religions have been in the past, of what certain religions still are to”

“Why did we obey? The question hardly occurred to us. We had formed the habit of deferring to our parents and teachers. All the same we knew very well that it was because they were our parents, because they were our teachers. Therefore, in our eyes, their authority came less from themselves than from their status in relation to us Chapter I: Moral Obligation”

“The remembrance of forbidden fruit is the earliest thing in the memory of each of us, as it is in that of mankind. Chapter I: Moral Obligation”

“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. Quoted in Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887”

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

“Je dirais qu'il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action. I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action . Speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris”

“L’intuition philosophique”

“All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant , man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity , in space and in time , is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death . Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter III. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911, p. 271”

“The present contains nothing more than the past , and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.”

“I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind , however simple , that does not change every moment . An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme . New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44”