It is the very essence of intelligence t... by Henri Bergson

Time philosopher French Nobel Prize Creativity

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

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

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

- Henri Bergson

Intention

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

- Henri Bergson

Perception

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

- Henri Bergson

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful.

- Henri Bergson

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

- Henri Bergson

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