“That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter” — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson Copy Share
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
“But, then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment, since there… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson Copy Share
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson Copy Share
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
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… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson Copy Share
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. — Henri Bergson Copy Share
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Henri Bergson Copy Share
“Might not certain vices have the same relation to character that the rigidity of a fixed idea as to intellect? Whether as a moral… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. — Henri Bergson Copy Share
