The vital spirit. L'élan vital.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life..

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to ….

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art som….

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles..

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm ….

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would….

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them..

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically..

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth t….

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division..

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war..

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it..

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis..

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality..

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable..

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

It seems that laughter needs an echo..

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action..

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind..

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation..