23 quotes
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Creative Evolution (1907)
This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
The universe is a machine for making gods.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Creative Evolution (1907)
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Creative Evolution (1907)
The remembrance of forbidden fruit is the earliest thing in the memory of each of us, as it is in that of mankind.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
His intelligence and his imagination will use the teachings of the theologians to express in words what he experiences, and in material images what he sees spiritually.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903)
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Creative Evolution (1907)
The spectacle of what religions have been in the past, of what certain religions still are to-day, is indeed humiliating for human intelligence. What a farrago of error and folly!'
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
The open society is one that is deemed in principle to embrace all humanity.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)
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.
Creative Evolution (1907)
People talk, indeed, of a "primitive mentality", as, for example, to-day that of the inferior races, and in days gone by that of humanity in general, at whose door the responsibility for superstition should be laid.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)