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

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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 sometimes does the artist.

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

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