Henri Louis Bergson

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

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

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

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

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

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its
original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its
original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial
objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely
urging the manufacture.