Henri Bergson Quotes


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.


Citations

Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. Translated by Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1911, p. 278.

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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
  • Born: October 18, 1859
  • Died: January 4, 1941
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Philosopher

Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.