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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Henri Bergson
Philosophical, Intuition, Analysis
Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

Henri Bergson
Unique, Order, Intuition
Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson
Intuition, Natural Instinct, Faculty
Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.139, Lulu Press, Inc

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