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Contudo, a sociedade exige algo mais ainda. Não basta viver; importa viver bem. Agora o que ela tem a temer é que cada um de nós, satisfeito em atent… - Henri Bergson
" "Contudo, a sociedade exige algo mais ainda. Não basta viver; importa viver bem. Agora o que ela tem a temer é que cada um de nós, satisfeito em atentar para o que respeita ao essencial da vida, se deixe ir quanto ao mais pelo automatismo fácil dos hábitos adquiridos. O que também deve recear é que os membros de que ela se compõe, em vez de terem por alvo um equilíbrio cada vez mais delicado de vontades a inserir-se cada vez com maior exatidão umas nas outras, se contentem com o respeitar as condições fundamentais desse equilíbrio: um acordo prévio entre as pessoas não lhe basta, mas a sociedade há de querer um esforço constante de adaptação recíproca. Toda rigidez do caráter, do espírito e mesmo do corpo, será, pois, suspeita à sociedade, por constituir indício possível de uma atividade que adormece, e também de uma atividade que se isola, tendendo a se afastar do centro comum em torno do qual a sociedade gravita; em suma, indício de uma excentricidade.
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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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It will be said that this enlarging is impossible. How can one ask the eyes of the body, or those of the mind, to see more than they see? Our attention can increase precision, clarify and intensify; it cannot bring forth in the field of perception what was not there in the first place. That’s the objection. — It is refuted in my opinion by experience. For hundreds of years, in fact, there have been men whose function has been precisely to see and to make us see what we do not naturally perceive. They are the artists.
Memory, imagination, conception and perception, generalization in short, are not there “for nothing, for pleasure.” It really seems, to listen to certain theorists, that the mind fell from heaven with a subdivision into psychological functions whose existence simply needs to be recognized: because these functions are such, they will no doubt be used in such a manner. I believe on the contrary that it is because they are useful, because they are necessary to life, that they are what they are: one must refer to the fundamental exigencies of life to explain their presence and to justify it if need be, I mean in order to know if the ordinary subdivision into such or such faculties is artificial or natural, and if in consequence we should maintain it or modify it. All our observations on the mechanism of function will be warped if we have badly cut it out of the continuity of the psychological tissue.
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