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Quote by Henri Bergson
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and r

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. – Henri Bergson

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