Henri Bergson

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

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

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

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

The motive power of democracy is love.

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.

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

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

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

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

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