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