A Quote by Henri Bergson
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!
These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.
Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.
Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
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