Bergson
['bə:gsən]
Definition
(noun.) French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941).
Edited by Jeanne--From WordNet
Examples
- This insight we owe to Bergson. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From this survival of the past, says Bergson, it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I look and I think I see, writes Bergson, I listen and I think I hear, I examine myself and I think I am reading the very depths of my heart. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is this that Bergson means when he tells us that a philosopher's intuition always outlasts his system. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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