Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 12 “ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” ― Henri Bergson “ Man muss wie ein denkender Mensch handeln und wie ein handelnder Mensch denken. ” “ Il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action. ” ―  Henri Bergson ,  Message au Congrès Descartes , IXe Congrès international de philosophie (1937) Triggered by further reflection on last week's quote " Thought is the enemy of flow " and the related idea that " Thought kills action ". " For Bergson, the action is the lowest sphere of the spirit, where it touches the physical mechanism, whereas it reaches its climax in the mere speculative freedom of the dream. " From X/Grok3: The popular English version of Henri Bergson's quote, "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought," reverses the sequence compared to the original French, "Il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action" (directly translated as ...

Quote of the Week 12 " The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality. " ―   Henri Bergson The search for this quote was triggered by a recent visit to Bergson Kunstkraftwerk  still under construction. Another quote attributed to Bergson for which I could not find the original source: " New ideas, in most cases, are the children of old thoughts. "

Quote of the Week 28 “ Time is but memory in the making. ” ― Vladimir Nabokov As cited in  Recursion by Blake Crouch. Context as provided in Nabokov's interview with BBC-2 in 1969: Let me quote a paragraph in my book Ada : " Physiologically the sense of Time is a sense of continuous becoming. . . . Philosophically , on the other hand, Time is but memory in the making. In every individual life there goes on, from cradle to deathbed, the gradual shaping and strengthening of that backbone of consciousness, which is the Time of the strong." This is Van speaking, Van Veen, the charming villain of mv book. I have not decided yet if I agree with him in all his view's on the texture of time. I suspect I don't.   See  Restoration of time: Henry Bergson and Vladimir Nabokov  for an exploration of Nabokov's notion of time, viewing it through the lens of Henri Bergson ’s philosophy. According to Nabokov “time is essentially memory in th...