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 BERGSONLife does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSONSex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
HENRI BERGSONIn laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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 BERGSONIf reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
HENRI BERGSONI see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
HENRI BERGSONThe present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
HENRI BERGSONEurope is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
HENRI BERGSONGenius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSONAnd I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSONI believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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 BERGSONIntelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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 BERGSON