It is impossible to consider the mechanism of our intellect and the progress of our science without arriving at the conclusion that between intellect… - Henri Bergson

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It is impossible to consider the mechanism of our intellect and the progress of our science without arriving at the conclusion that between intellect and matter there is, in fact, symmetry, concord and agreement. On one hand, matter resolves itself more and more, in the eyes of the scholar, into mathematical relations, and on the other hand, the essential faculties of our intellect function with an absolute precision only when they are applied to geometry.

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About Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Alternative Names: Henri-Louis Bergson H. Bergson Henry Bergson Henri Louis Bergson Berxon
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As far as I am concerned, I value scientific knowledge and technical competence as much as intuitive vision. I believe that 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 sapiens, born of the reflection Homo faber makes on the subject of his fabrication, seems to me to be just as worthy of esteem as long as he resolves by pure intelligence those problems which depend upon it alone. One philosopher may be mistaken in the choice of these problems, but another philosopher will correct him; both will have worked to the best of their ability; both can merit our gratitude and admiration. Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge. The only one to which I am antipathetic is Homo loquax whose thought, when he does think, is only a reflection upon his talk.

L’homme est faber avant d’être sapiens.
(…) Seule l’intuition va au cœur du réel et permet de connaître le temps véritable qu’est la durée intérieure. C’est « la connaissance directe de l’esprit par l’esprit » au-delà de la médiation du langage incapable de saisir le « moi fondamental

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De même que le talent du peintre se forme ou se déforme, en tout cas se modifie, sous l’influence même des oeuvres qu’il produit, ainsi chacun de nos états, en même temps qu’il sort de nous, modifie notre personne, étant la forme nouvelle que nous venons de nous donner.
On a donc raison de dire que ce que nous faisons dépend de ce que nous sommes ; mais il faut ajouter que nous sommes, dans une certaine mesure, ce que nous faisons, et que nous nous créons continuellement nous-mêmes. Cette création de soi par soi est d’autant plus complète, d’ailleurs, qu’on raisonne mieux sur ce qu’on fait.

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