All Henri Bergson Quotes
- The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find… Charm
- Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social… Amiss
- Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. Anything Lives
- The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Cause
- Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. Addition
- For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent… Among
- Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact… Accepted
- Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. Becoming
- It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot… Act
- In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning… All
- Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. Appeal
- The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Cure
- We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which… Cannot Compensate
- She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of… Affair