The Vital Spirit. L'élan Vital

One Can Always Reason With Reason.

All The Translations Of A Poem In All Possible Languages May Add Nuance To Nuance And, By A Kind Of Mutual Retouching, By Correcting One Another, May Give An Increasingly Faithful Picture Of The Poem They Translate, Yet They Will Never Give The Inner Meaning Of The Original.

Laughter Is The Corrective Force Which Prevents Us From Becoming Cranks.

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.

I See Plainly How External Images Influence The Image That I Call My Body : They Transmit Movement To It.