Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – 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
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. – Henri Bergson
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson
Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A