Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – Henri Bergson
To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – 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
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas