115 Quotes by Henri Bergson

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one’s self endlessly.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

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 capacity for taking pains.

In realtà, ogni momento della nostra vita è creazione; per un essere cosciente, "esistere" significa cambiare; cambiare nel maturarsi; e maturarsi nel creare se stesso all'infinito.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

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

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.

[W]ithin our ego, there is succession without mutual externality; outside the ego, in pure space, mutual externality without succession.

[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.