Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. — Quoted

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“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.”

Henri Bergson · Religion

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Henri Bergson

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Imagination

Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Change

Henri Bergson

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

Intelligence

Henri Bergson

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Attitude