The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Henri BergsonThe emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
Henri BergsonInstinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri BergsonWhen it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.
Henri Bergson