Henri Bergson Quotes

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

Think like a man of action act like a man of thought.

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

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

[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

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

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

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