The vital spirit. L'élan vital

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

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

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.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

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

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.