Logo
Quote by Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found

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

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

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

Category:
Perception
Author
Henri Bergson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Past, the
category

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. – John Berger

Category:
Past, the

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Past, the

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. – Spiro T. Agnew

Category:
Past, the

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett

Category:
Past, the

Random Quotes

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

Category:
Poetry

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. – Epictetus

Category:
alone

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe thats the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other? – Linda McCartney

Category:
amazing

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that Im artistic and cool and Im doing the exact same thing I did in high school. – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Category:
cool