Quotes by : Henri Bergson

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected....

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...

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

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future....

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped....

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence....

Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually accompanies....

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.....

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form....

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