"Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on likeness and repetition, like the natural geometry which serves as its fulcrum. Fabrication works on models which it sets out to reproduce; and even when it invents, it proceeds, or imagines itself to proceed, by a new arrangement of elements already known. Its principle is that —we must have like to produce like.— In short, the strict application of the principle of finality, like that of the principle of mechanical causality, leads to the conclusion that —all is given.— Both principles say the same thing in their respective languages, because they respond to the same need."

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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.

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