| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 6832 |
| QUOTATION: | The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher. Creative Evolution, ch. 1, sct.1 (1907). Spinoza had earlier observed, in Ethics, pt. 1 (1677), “The knowledge of effect depends on the knowledge of cause, and involves the same.” |
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