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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. : : 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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