Henri Bergson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.”

“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.”

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

“To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.”

“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.”

“In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.”

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

“Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.”

“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.”