The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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.
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| Birth: | 18th October, 1859 |
| Death: | 4th January, 1941 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Philosopher |
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Henri-Louis Bergson was born in Paris, France. He was a French philosopher. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented". In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur. He wrote several books include: Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Laughter, Creative Evolution, Mind-Energy, Duration and Simultaneity, and The Creative Mind.
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