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 1 Share Now -
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 image of a man who runs. - Henri Bergson 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson 6 Share Now -
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. - Henri Bergson 7 Share Now -
