"Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized we shall have war."
―Henri Bergson
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"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."
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"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
―Henri Bergson
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"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body they transmit movement to it."
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"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
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"It seems that laughter needs an echo."
―Henri Bergson
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"Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain."
―Henri Bergson
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"There is nothing that disarms us like laughter."
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"However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary."
―Henri Bergson
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"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."
―Henri Bergson
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"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"
―Henri Bergson
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"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
―Henri Bergson
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"In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture."
―Henri Bergson
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"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment"
―Henri Bergson
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"In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture."
―Henri Bergson
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"Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness."
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"It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge."
―Henri Bergson
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
―Henri Bergson
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"And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them."
―Henri Bergson
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"Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things"
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