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“What I dislike about Paris,” he told his friend Jacques Chevalier, “is the lack of sunshine, the lack of air, the lack of silence.… People talk about progress. But every new advance is accompanied by the invention of a new kind of noise: trains, cars, aeroplanes.… I would have loved to live in the countryside.”6 He envied the peaceful existence of forest rangers, who lived among the trees, breathing in pure air away from the commotion of the city and enjoying levels of freedom he could no longer hope for.”
― Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
― Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
“The final words of Bergson’s 1932 book The Two Sources of Morality and Religion could have been written today: “Mankind lies groaning, half-crushed beneath the weight of its own progress. Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining whether they want to go on living or not.”
― Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
― Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
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