"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
Henri Bergson was a French philosopher known for his work on duration, intuition, and creative evolution. Born in Paris on 1859-10-18, he became one of the most influential European thinkers of the early twentieth century and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927. He died in Paris on 1941-01-04.