There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSONRealism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
HENRI BERGSONSex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSONOnly those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
HENRI BERGSONLaughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
HENRI BERGSONA situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
HENRI BERGSONThe universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
HENRI BERGSONThere are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
HENRI BERGSONArt has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
HENRI BERGSONIs it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSONACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
HENRI BERGSONIn laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSONThe movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSONOur laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSONTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSON