When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
HENRI BERGSONWhen it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
HENRI BERGSONAnd I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSONWherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSONAction on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
HENRI BERGSONSome other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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 BERGSONRealism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
HENRI BERGSONIt seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSONIn laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
HENRI BERGSONHomo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
HENRI BERGSONReligion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSONHowever spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
HENRI BERGSONTo drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSONOne can always reason with reason.
HENRI BERGSONWe are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON