The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Henri BergsonI believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.
Henri BergsonIntuition 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.
Henri BergsonLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Henri Bergson