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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 - Page 18
by Henri Bergson - 2005 - 472 pages
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Bergson for Beginners: A Summary of His Philosophy, with Introduction and Notes

Darcy Butterworth Kitchin - 1914 - 332 pages
...as one individual produces another, for living bodies are links in a chain. In unorganised bodies " the present contains nothing more than the past, and...is found in the effect was already in the cause." In the organic we find growth and unceasing change ; life seems to search for individuality and to...
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Bergson for Beginners: A Summary of His Philosophy

Darcy Butterworth Kitchin - 1914 - 338 pages
...as one individual produces another, for living bodies are links in a chain. In unorganised bodies " the present contains nothing more than the past, and...is found in the effect was already in the cause." In the organic we find growth and unceasing change ; life seems to search for individuality and to...
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Strife of Systems and Productive Duality: An Essay in Philosophy

Wilmon Henry Sheldon - 1918 - 556 pages
...(particularly in our free acts) ; reason always tries to explain by referring to a cause. Its motto is, the present contains nothing more than the past, and...what is found in the effect was already in the cause (p. 14). The intellect does not admit real novelty; it forever reduces the new to the old. " Sameness...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Paradise Lost. 9. 926. PINDAR — Olynipvi. 2. 17. PLINY the Elder— Historia Naturalis. 2. 5. 10. 23 and full of bone, HENRI BEROSON — Creative Evolution. Ch. I. (See also CARLYLE) No traces left of all the busy scene,...
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Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker

Lawrence O. Koch - 1988 - 356 pages
...Unfortunately, he did not handle it well. CHAPTER XIV INTO THE FIFTIES Reunion With Diz (January -June 1950) The present contains nothing more than the past, and...what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Henri Bergson — Creative Evolution The saxophone voice of the late Forties was the alto, made by...
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Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations

C.C. Gaither - 2018 - 438 pages
...of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. Bacon, Francis New Atlantis (p. 288) ... the present contains nothing more than the past, and...what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Bergson, Henri Creative Evolution (p. 17) First causes are outside the realm of science; they forever...
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End of An Era

Robert J. Sawyer - 2001 - 258 pages
...mind, I quickly rose to my feet, brushed pieces of moss off my bum, and headed forward. Countdown: G The present contains nothing more than the past, and...what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson, French philosopher (1859-1941) The sun was sliding slowly down the bowl of the sky....
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Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps

Edward S. Casey - 2002 - 414 pages
...principle, but specifies that it applies only to the realm of "unorgani2ed matret": in this realm, "the present contains nothing more than the past,...what is found in the effect was already in the cause" (Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, trans. A. Mirchell [New York: Random House, 1944], p. 17; all in...
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Commune with Your Heart: The Only Way to Find Peace, Joy and Happiness

Dwight Nichols - 2004 - 346 pages
...communing with our heart. Shakespeare said, "What's past is prologue." Henri Bergson, philosopher, said, "The present contains nothing more than the past,...is found in the effect was already in the cause." There are those who think that it is not necessary to dredge up the past to overcome a problem. The...
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Frameshift

Robert J. Sawyer - 2005 - 354 pages
...laureate. The French philosopher Henri Bergson had written in his 1907 work Creative Evolution that "the present contains nothing more than the past,...is found in the effect was already in the cause." The junk DNA was a language, just as that article Shari had found had suggested: the language in which...
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