Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stability is to be found in change itself. This means that we must reverse the current conception of what is stable and what is changing. We erroneously consider movement as more complicated than immobility. On the contrary every immobility is due to two simultaneous movements. The table appears motionless to one only because one moves with it. Movement, however, is indivisible. Movement, or change, then, is the sought for stability, and thus we reach the conception of the individual life as a stable reality. It is an indivisible movement of which our attention perceives certain stages. The brain...