Henri Bergson Quotes about Reality

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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.

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

Dream, Reality, Ideas

Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

Reality, Faculty, Intellect

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Henri Bergson

Art, Communication, Reality

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

Reality, Soul, Realism

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

Henri Bergson

Philosophical, Past, Reality

Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Henri Bergson

Art, Reality, Order

Henri Bergson Quotes about Reality

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