Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Quote by Henri Bergson

Topics: Intelligence Quotes

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

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

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that...

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

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

The motive power of democracy is love

The motive power of democracy is love

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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

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

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

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

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

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and...

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and...

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

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

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect...

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect...

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

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

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense...

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.