Quotes from bergson henri iii

To know how to deal with the present and to guard against worry and fear--that is true wisdom and the ultimate aim of philosophy.

Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.

Science has equipped man in less than fifty years with more tools than he had made during the thousands of years he had lived on earth. Each new machine being for man a new organ -- an artificial organ -- his body became suddenly and prodigiously increased in size, without his soul being at the same time able to dilate to the dimensions of his body.

I pass from state to state. I am warm or cold, I am merry or sad, I work or I do nothing, I look at what is around me or I think of something else. Sensations, feelings, volitions, ideas -- such are the changes into which my existence is divided and which color it in turns. I change, then, without ceasing.

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

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.