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

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

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo.
Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Henri Bergson

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
Henri Bergson

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