Note 399 — Chapter IX · PRAGMATISM AND IDEALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF BERGSON386

Cf. the words in the Preface to Matter and Memory: “The whole personality, which, normally narrowed down by action, expands with the unscrewing of the vice in which it has allowed itself to be squeezed,” or the words in the same place about the task of metaphysics being the attempt of the “mind striving to transcend the conditions of useful action.”