Henri Bergson: A Study in Radical EvolutionSturgis & Walton, 1914 - 193 sider |
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abstract action activity æsthetic analysis aspect aspiration become Berg Bergson's doctrine Bergson's philosophy Bergson's system Bergson's view Bergsonian Bertrand Russell brain concepts concrete consciousness course creation Creative Evolution CRITICISM OF BERGSON death dualism duration elements empiricism eternal evolutionism existence experience fact feel flux freedom fundamental Hegel HENRI BERGSON human ical idealism ideas illustration important individual inner intel intelligence interest intuition James knowledge Leibniz living Lovejoy matter means mechanism memory ment mental merely metaphysical Métaphysique method mind monad movement mutations natural selection nature never notion object organisation organism original paramecium passage perception personality PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION physical present principle problem psychical psychology pure change purpose question radical RADICAL EVOLUTION realised reality represent scientific intellect seems sense significance son's soul static survival symbols teleology theology theory things thought tion TRINE true truth ture unity universe whole writers
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Side 11 - Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Side 175 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes...
Side 173 - Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole body subject to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of judgment. And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.
Side 157 - ... all places as in all times, do but evidence a single impulsion, the inverse of the movement of matter, and in itself indivisible. All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push.
Side 12 - ... thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces...
Side 80 - Is put on life ; one stage of being complete, One scheme wound up : and from the grand result A supplementary reflux of light, Illustrates all the inferior grades, explains Each back step in the circle. Not alone For their possessor dawn those qualities, But the new glory mixes with the heaven And earth ; man, once descried, imprints for ever His presence on all lifeless things...
Side 157 - The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge...
Side 170 - Termination of activity, cessation from movement and opinion, and in a sense their death, is no evil. Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear? Turn thy thoughts now to thy life under thy grandfather, then to thy life under thy mother, then to thy life under thy father; and as thou findest many other differences and changes and terminations, ask thyself, Is...
Side 20 - God thus defined, has nothing of the already made; He is unceasing life, action, freedom. Creation, so conceived, is not a mystery; we experience it in ourselves when we act freely.
Side 21 - We shall see that the human intellect feels at home among inanimate objects, more especially among solids, where our action finds its fulcrum and our industry its tools; that our concepts have been formed on the model of solids; that our logic is, pre-eminently, the logic of solids; that, consequently, our intellect triumphs in geometry...