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Quote by Henri Bergson
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of percept

To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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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. – Henri Bergson

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. – Henri Bergson

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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake

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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize. – Andre Breton

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one. – Albert Einstein

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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. – Desiderius Erasmus

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