It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

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

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

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

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.