How did Henri Bergson distinguish analysis from intuition?

Henri Bergson distinguished between two profoundly different ways of knowing: analysis and intuition.1

• Analysis: This method, which reaches its peak in science, is conceptual, spatializing, and analytic. It tends to view reality as a collection of solid, discontinuous, and static parts. While Bergson acknowledged that this approach is highly useful for practical activity and acting upon the world, he argued that it ultimately falsifies reality by ignoring the nature of duration—the perpetual, fluid flux of existence.12

• Intuition: In contrast, intuition is a global and immediate mode of knowledge. It allows one to reach the "heart" of a subject through sympathy, grasping the world as an interconnected whole. For Bergson, intuition is the only way to apprehend the essential reality of things, as it alone can capture the continuous, free-moving nature of duration that analytic procedures necessarily leave out.132

Bergson’s entire philosophical project can be viewed as an exploration of this intuition, particularly regarding how duration constitutes the innermost reality of all things.1