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

Quote by Henri Bergson

Topics: Past Quotes, Time Quotes

The motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter...

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

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

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

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...

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty...

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted...

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

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

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...

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

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

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

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

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

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...

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...

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.