Henri Bergson

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

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

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

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

“The universe is a machine for the making of gods.”

“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”

“Instinct is sympathy. If it could be expanded and illuminated, it would give us the key to vital operations.”

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

“The function of the brain is to limit our perception, not to produce it.”

“Intelligence is characterized by a natural inability to comprehend life.”

“Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.”

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future.”

“The great moral figures of humanity were not those who stamped out their passions, but those who harnessed them.”

“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself.”

“The motive power of democracy is love.”

“There are things that intelligence alone is able to seek, but which, by itself, it will never find. These things instinct alone could find; but it will never seek them.”

“Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing.”