The spectacle of what religions have been in the past, of w… - Henri Bergson

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The spectacle of what religions have been in the past, of what certain religions still are to-day, is indeed humiliating for human intelligence. What a farrago of error and folly!'

Henri Bergson

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About Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Alternative Names: Henri-Louis Bergson • H. Bergson • Henry Bergson • Henri Louis Bergson • Berxon

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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

"Plus la science approfondit la nature du corps dans la direction de sa "réalité", plus elle réduit déjà chaque propriété de ce corps, et par conséquent son existence même, aux relations qu'il entretient avec le reste de la matière capable de l'influencer."

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

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