Henri Bergson

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

— Henri Bergson

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

— Henri Bergson

In 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

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

— Henri Bergson

The 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 Bergson

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Henri Bergson

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

— Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

— Henri Bergson

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

— Henri Bergson

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

— Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

— Henri Bergson

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

— Henri Bergson

Intuition 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 Bergson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

— Henri Bergson