Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad - Henri Bergson

If my views were generally judged to be paradoxical when they made their appearance, some of them are commonplace today; others bid fair to become so. Let us admit that they could not at first be accepted. It would have meant tearing oneself away from deeply-rooted habits, veritable extensions of nature. All our ways of speaking, thinking, perceiving imply in effect that immobility and immutability are there by right, that movement and change are superadded, like accidents, to things which, by themselves, do not move and, in themselves, do not change. The representation of change is that of qualities or states, which supposedly follow one another in a substance. Each of these qualities, each of these states would be something stable, change being made of their succession: as for substance, whose role is to support the states and qualities which succeed one another, it would be stability itself. Such is the logic immanent in our languages and formulated once and for all by Aristotle: the intelligence has as its essence to judge, and judgment operates by the attribution of a predicate to a subject. The subject, by the sole fact of being named, is defined as invariable; the variation will reside in the diversity of the states that one will affirm concerning it, one after another.

Mais l'idée que le monde entier, y compris les êtres vivants, relève de la mathématique pure, n'est qu'une vue a priori de l'esprit, qui remonte aux cartésiens.

"Notre rire est toujours le rire d'un groupe. Il vous est peut-être arrivé, en wagon ou à une table d'hôte, d'entendre des voyageurs se raconter des histoires qui devaient être comiques pour eux puisqu'ils riaient de bon cœur. Vous auriez ri comme eux si vous eussiez été de leur société. Mais n'en étant pas, vous n'aviez aucune envie de rire. Un homme, à qui l'on demandait pourquoi il ne pleurait pas à un sermon où tout le monde versait des larmes, répondit : "Je ne suis pas de la paroisse". Ce que cet homme pensait des larmes serait bien plus vrai du rire."