And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. — Henri Bergson
To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. — Henri Bergson
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority — Henri Bergson
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. — Henri Bergson
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; — Henri Bergson
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. — Henri Bergson
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. — Henri Bergson
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf — Henri Bergson