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 BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSONThe major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
HENRI BERGSONHomo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
HENRI BERGSONSpirit 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 BERGSONLaughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
HENRI BERGSONTo ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
HENRI BERGSONIt seems that laughter needs an echo.
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 BERGSONAn absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSONIn laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSONThe motive power of democracy is love.
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 varying the manufacture.
HENRI BERGSONTo drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSONIn 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