Henri Bergson. Only intuition can grasp the truth. Creative evolution
Henri Bergson was born in 1859 in Paris. Until the age of 19, he remained a British citizen, since his mother Catherine, who was passionate about art and instilled in her son a love for the English language, literature and poetry, was English. Henri, who was brought up in boarding schools from the age of 9, finally decided to stay in France and continue his education at the Lycée Condorcet. Bergson seriously and successfully studied mathematics: the famous mathematician Debauve, who taught him, included Bergson’s student article in his book on Blaise Pascal and modern geometry, and for it Bergson received his first prize – the Annales de Mathematics. Bergson’s transfer in 1881 to the Ecole Normale, where he later studied philosophy together with Durkheim, was a great disappointment for his professors: “You could have become a mathematician, but you only wanted to be a philosopher.”