NOUN
- French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)
How To Use Bergson In A Sentence
- There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson
- Here's a useful quote from Karin Costelloe in reference to Bergson's theories of "interpenetration", a process whereby The J Curve
- An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. Henri Bergson
- If this instance be taken as typical of the process of evolution in general, then the course of evolution is not, so to speak, linear or rectilinear, but -- to use M. Bergson's word -- 'dispersive'. Recent Developments in European Thought
- Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. Henri Bergson
- The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. Henri Bergson
- “What we call fatalism,” M. Bergson says, “is only the revenge of nature on man's will when the mind puts too much strain upon the flesh or acts as if it did not exist. Georges Guynemer
- And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. Henri Bergson
- Bergson's third image is an elastic band being stretched.
- Indeed this Austrian arch-opponent of the pseudo-sciences would surely have been more sympathetic to Bergson's conception of music as having contact with a verbally unrepresentable interiority.
