Henri Bergson Quotes
Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the con...
Show MoreThe question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...
Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually ...
Show MoreIntelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the ...
Show MoreThe pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation...
Show MoreEurope is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction ...
Show More[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself...
Show MoreThe idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the f...
Show MoreLong before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on liken...
Show MoreThink like a man of action act like a man of thought.
No two moments are identical in a conscious being
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence pe...
Show MoreIn just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
Show MoreSpirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form...
Show MoreWe regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which i...
Show MoreTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by ...
Show MoreSome other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility the generalities that ar...
Show MoreYou will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stri...
Show MoreTo exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
