Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
"Henri-Louis Bergson" was a major French philosophy/French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that the processes of immediate experience and Intuition (knowledge)/intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented".
In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous scientists! More Henri Bergson on Wikipedia.In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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