Frases de Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson o Henri Bergson fue un filósofo y escritor francés, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1927. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. octubre 1859 – 4. enero 1941   •   Otros nombres Henri Louis Bergson
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Frases célebres de Henri Bergson

“Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad.”

Variante: Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad

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Henri Bergson: Frases en inglés

“I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.”

Henri Bergson libro An Introduction to Metaphysics

An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44

“The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Robertson Davies as quoted in The White Bedouin‎ (2007) by George Potter, p. 241
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“This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.”

Henri Bergson libro The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Fuente: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), Chapter III : Dynamic Religion
Contexto: Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. What the mystic finds waiting for him, then, is a humanity which has been prepared to listen to his message by other mystics invisible and present in the religion which is actually taught. Indeed his mysticism itself is imbued with this religion, for such was its starting point. His theology will generally conform to that of the theologians. His intelligence and his imagination will use the teachings of the theologians to express in words what he experiences, and in material images what he sees spiritually. And this he can do easily, since theology has tapped that very current whose source is the mystical. Thus his mysticism is served by religion, against the day when religion becomes enriched by his mysticism. This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.

“Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.”

Henri Bergson libro The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Concluding sentences <!-- University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317 --> ; often just the last part of the last sentence is quoted, in the form: "The universe is a machine for making gods."
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
Contexto: Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on their refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods (la fonction essentielle de l'universe, qui est une machine à faire des dieux).

“His intelligence and his imagination will use the teachings of the theologians to express in words what he experiences, and in material images what he sees spiritually.”

Henri Bergson libro The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Fuente: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), Chapter III : Dynamic Religion
Contexto: Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. What the mystic finds waiting for him, then, is a humanity which has been prepared to listen to his message by other mystics invisible and present in the religion which is actually taught. Indeed his mysticism itself is imbued with this religion, for such was its starting point. His theology will generally conform to that of the theologians. His intelligence and his imagination will use the teachings of the theologians to express in words what he experiences, and in material images what he sees spiritually. And this he can do easily, since theology has tapped that very current whose source is the mystical. Thus his mysticism is served by religion, against the day when religion becomes enriched by his mysticism. This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.

“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”

Henri Bergson libro Creative Evolution

Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.

“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.”

Henri Bergson libro The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Fuente: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), Chapter III : Dynamic Religion
Contexto: Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. What the mystic finds waiting for him, then, is a humanity which has been prepared to listen to his message by other mystics invisible and present in the religion which is actually taught. Indeed his mysticism itself is imbued with this religion, for such was its starting point. His theology will generally conform to that of the theologians. His intelligence and his imagination will use the teachings of the theologians to express in words what he experiences, and in material images what he sees spiritually. And this he can do easily, since theology has tapped that very current whose source is the mystical. Thus his mysticism is served by religion, against the day when religion becomes enriched by his mysticism. This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.

“I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.”

Je dirais qu'il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action.
Speech at the Descartes Conference http://books.google.com/books?id=BynXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Je+dirais+qu'il+faut+agir+en+homme+de+pens%C3%A9e+et+penser+en+homme+d'action%22&pg=PA1579#v=onepage in Paris (1937)
Quoted in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (1950), p. 442, as "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

“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, 1887-1986 : Flowers in the Desert (2000) by Britta Benke, p. 28

“Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.”

Henri Bergson libro The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Toute notre civilisation est aphrodisiaque
Fuente: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), Chapter IV

“A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said. And he has said only one thing because he has seen only one point: and at that it was not so much a vision as a contact…”

Henri Bergson libro An Introduction to Metaphysics

Un philosophe digne de ce nom n'a jamais dit qu'une seule chose : encore a-t-il plutôt cherché à la dire qu'il ne l'a dite véritablement. Et il n'a dit qu'une seule chose parce qu'il n'a su qu'un seul point : encore fut-ce moins une vision qu'un contact...
"L’intuition philosophique (Philosophical Intuition)" http://obvil.paris-sorbonne.fr/corpus/critique/bergson_pensee/body-5 (10 April 1911); translated by Mabelle L. Andison in: Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics, Courier Dover Publications, 2012, p. 91

“The open society is one that is deemed in principle to embrace all humanity.”

Henri Bergson libro The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

La société ouverte est celle qui embrasserait en principe l’humanité entière.
Fuente: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), Chapter IV

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