Quotes Henri Bergson

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneousl...

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the...

And I also see how this body influences external images: it ...

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to de...

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind...

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I...

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; a...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions o...

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliat...

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically....

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructi...

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, es...

It seems that laughter needs an echo....

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of ele...

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group....

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science....

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization....

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the a...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds...

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore t...

The motive power of democracy is love....

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault tha...

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is...