“But, then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it… — 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
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
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 Image
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
