115 Quotes by Henri Bergson

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

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

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.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

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

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

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.