Henri Bergson - Man Quotes

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

Henri Bergson

It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose...Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

Henri Bergson

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

Henri Bergson

Science has equipped man in less than fifty years with more tools than he had made during the thousands of years he had lived on earth. Each new machine being for man a new organ — an artificial organ — his body became suddenly and prodigiously increased in size, without his soul being at the same time able to dilate to the dimensions of his body.

Henri Bergson