The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
HENRI BERGSONThe movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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 BERGSONIt seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSONHowever spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
HENRI BERGSONThere is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSONThe universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
HENRI BERGSONTo ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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 BERGSONThe present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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 BERGSONOnly those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
HENRI BERGSONI believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
HENRI BERGSONInstinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
HENRI BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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 BERGSON