Henri Bergson

The brain's function is to choose from the past, to diminish it, to simplify it, but not to preserve it

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

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

There is, beneath these sharply cut crystals and this frozen surface, a continuous flux which is not comparable to any flux I have ever seen. There is a succession of states, each of which anounces that which follows and contains that which precedes it. . . .

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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

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

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.