Henri Bergson Quotes

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

It's all about sensitivity. If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life.

People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

We all have a hidden mystic quality if we can learn and trust to tap into that power.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!