The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
From Henri Bergson
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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.
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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