It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
HENRI BERGSONIt is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
HENRI BERGSONAnd I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSONTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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 BERGSONRealism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
HENRI BERGSONOur laughter is always the laughter of a group.
HENRI BERGSONIn short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
HENRI BERGSONI would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
HENRI BERGSONIntuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
HENRI BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSONThe idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
HENRI BERGSONSome other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSONTo drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSONThe movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSONWhen we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
HENRI BERGSON