Henri Bergson

 Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. 

Henri Bergson

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

Henri Bergson 

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

Henri Bergson 

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. 

Henri Bergson 

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. 

Henri Bergson 

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

Henri Bergson 

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

Henri Bergson 

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

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

Henri Bergson 

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. 

Henri Bergson