Quotes by : Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.....

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration....

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...

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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

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....

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of....