“ Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. Henri Bergson
“ Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. Henri Bergson
“ Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. Henri Bergson
“ Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capaci… Henri Bergson
“ You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. Henri Bergson
“ The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. Henri Bergson
“ To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson
“ Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted everything in fact which masks reality from us in order to… Henri Bergson
“ We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. Henri Bergson
“ In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the… Henri Bergson
“ There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson
“ The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful... Henri Bergson
“ The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Henri Bergson
“ 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. Henri Bergson
“ Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually accompanies laughter. It seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it… Henri Bergson
“ [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. Henri Bergson
