Henri Bergson Quotes

"In 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 Bergson in Intelligence quotes.

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
-Henri Bergson in Maturity quotes.

"Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation."
-Henri Bergson

"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
-Henri Bergson in Time quotes.

"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
-Henri Bergson in Religion quotes.

"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
-Henri Bergson in Vanity quotes.

"To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
-Henri Bergson

"There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
-Henri Bergson

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
-Henri Bergson

"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
-Henri Bergson in Life quotes.