115 Quotes by Henri Bergson

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

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

De diez errores políticos, nueve consisten simplemente en creer todavía verdadero lo que ha cesado de serlo.

Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them.

Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad

A flexible vice may not be so easy to ridicule as a rigid virtue.

Avouons notre ignorance, mais ne nous résignons pas à la croire définitive.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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.