Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

- Henri Bergson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

- Henri Bergson

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

- Henri Bergson

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.

- Henri Bergson

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

- Henri Bergson

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

- Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

- Henri Bergson

The motive power of democracy is love.

- Henri Bergson

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

- Henri Bergson

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

- Henri Bergson

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

- Henri Bergson

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

- 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

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

- Henri Bergson

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

- 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

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

- Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

- Henri Bergson

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