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: : : Bergson on action: : : Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. : : : : On spirit: : : Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which : : it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of : : movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. : : : : On perception: : : To perceive means to immobilize...we seize, in the act : : of perception, something which outruns perception : : itself. : : : : On the past: : : The present contains nothing more than the past, and : : what is found in the effect was already in the cause. : The Bergsonian concept of time ("la durée") is best usderstood when we make a distinction between subjective time (made up of subjective events - those accessible only to the subject) and objective time (made up of objective events- those observable by every observer). While Leibniz was concerned with objective time, Bergson privileged its subjective perception as a flow where past and present are intermixed, and project a future as well as a multidimensional imaginary time. : But Berson disregarded the fact that this flow of subjectivity is imersed in a flow of objective events full of contingency, so the effect is not predetermined by the past. This element of contingency is what makes the game of life so interesting. : : : : On instinct: : : A absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all : : the rest has to do with ysis. We call intuition : : here the sympathy by which one is transported into the : : interior of an object in order to coincide with what : : there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. : : ysis, on the contrary, is the operation which : : reduces the object to elements already known. : : : I have posted these quotes to spark commentary on them. : : Bergson, in my view, is a sadly neglected thinker.

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