The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – 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
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