Nous ne voyons pas les choses mêmes ; nous nous bornons, le plus souvent, à lire des étiquettes collées sur elles. - Henri Bergson

The process by which philosophy seems to assimilate the results of positive science, like the operation in the course of which a philosophy appears to re-assemble in itself the fragments of earlier philosophies, is not a synthesis but an analysis. Science is the auxiliary of action. And action aims at a result. The scientific intelligence asks itself therefore what will have to be done in order that a certain desired result be attained, or more generally, what conditions should obtain in order that a certain phenomenon take place. It goes from an arrangement of things to a rearrangement, from a simultaneity to a simultaneity. Of necessity it neglects what happens in the interval; or if it does concern itself with it, it is in order to consider other arrangements in it, still more simultaneities. With methods meant to seize the ready-made, it cannot in general enter into what is being done, it cannot follow the moving reality, adopt the becoming which is the life of things. This last task belongs to philosophy.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

A arte do caricaturista consiste em captar esse movimento às vezes imperceptível, e em torná-lo visível a todos os olhos mediante ampliação dele. Ele faz com que os seus modelos careteiem como se
fossem ao extremo de sua careta. Ele adivinha, sob as harmonias superficiais da forma, as revoltas profundas da matéria. Efetua desproporções e deformações
que poderiam existir na natureza se ela pudesse ter vontade, mas que não puderam concretizar-se, reprimidas que foram por uma força melhor. A
caricatura, que tem algo de diabólico, ressalta o demônio que venceu o anjo.