Henri Bergson Philosophical Quotations

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

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

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.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

The motive power of democracy is love