The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Henri Bergson
To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson
We regard intelligence as mans main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. – Henri Bergson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson
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
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – Henri Bergson
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. – Henri Bergson
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. – Henri Bergson
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. – Henri Bergson
