To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – 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