Henri Bergson Quotes & Sayings

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

“In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.”

“There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.”

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

“Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.”

“Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.”

“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”

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

“There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.”

“A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.”