Henri Bergson

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.

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

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.