Henri Bergson#Henri
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#Henri
Henri Bergson · 1859–1941
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Who this is
“He was once the most famous philosopher alive — and his whole philosophy grew from one insight: a clock can tell you what time it is, but it cannot tell you what time is.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The time of clocks and equations is a useful fiction — real time is duration, the flowing, unrepeatable melting of moments into one another that you live but can never measure.”
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