Henri Bergson quotes

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. (Henri Bergson)
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Henri Bergson
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Henri Bergson
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Henri Bergson
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.
Henri Bergson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
Henri Bergson
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
Henri Bergson
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. (Henri Bergson)
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
Henri Bergson
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Henri Bergson
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
Henri Bergson
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.
Henri Bergson
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Henri Bergson
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.
Henri Bergson
The motive power of democracy is love.
Henri Bergson
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. (Henri Bergson)
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Henri Bergson
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Henri Bergson