All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will… — 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, art would be unnecessary. — 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
