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Henri Bergson
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The remembrance of forbidden fruit is the earliest thing in the memory of each of us, as it is in that of mankind.
— Chapter I: Moral Obligation
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859–1941)
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Updated 2026-06-21
He argued that lived time — the felt flow of now — matters more than the clock, and that intuition sees deeper than logic. The idea rattled both laboratories and lecture halls, made him a literary Nobel laureate, and split French opinion down the middle.
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Henri-Louis Bergson was born in Paris on 18 October 1859 and built a philosophy that placed immediate experience above abstract reason, insisting intuition could grasp reality where science could not. The position made him a force in both analytic and continental thought through the first half of the 20th century, then faded until Gilles Deleuze revived him with Le Bergsonisme in 1966. In 1927 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the richness and skill of his ideas. France gave him the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur in 1930, even as officials wedded to secular rationalism saw his work…
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Henri Bergson
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Why did we obey? The question hardly occurred to us. We had formed the habit of deferring to our parents and teachers.
— Chapter I: Moral Obligation
Henri Bergson
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The spectacle of what religions have been in the past, of what certain religions still are to-day, is indeed humiliating for human intelligence. What a farrago of error and folly!
— Chapter II : Static Religion
Henri Bergson
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
— Chapter III : Dynamic Religion
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.
— Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.
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