#henri bergson
A few thoughts on eternal recurrence
The idea of eternal recurrence, as read in Nietzsche, has fascinated me for a long while. The first time I came in contact with the idea was in fact in reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being, where the author writes
“If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross… In the world of eternal return the weight of…
“There is no perception that is not impregnated with memories.”— Henri Bergson, from Matter and Memory, transl. Anita Szczepańska (De Agostini, 1988)
