The Vital Spirit. L'élan Vital

Instinct Perfected Is A Faculty Of Using And Even Constructing Organized Instruments; Intelligence Perfected Is The Faculty Of Making And Using Unorganized Instruments.

In Reality, The Past Is Preserved By Itself Automatically.

You Will Obtain A Vision Of Matter That Is Perhaps Fatiguing For Your Imagination, But Pure And Stripped Of What The Requirements Of Life Make You Add To It In External Perception.

An Absolute Can Only Be Given In An Intuition, While All The Rest Has To Do With Analysis. We Call Intuition Here The Sympathy By Which One Is Transported Into The Interior Of An Object In Order To Coincide With What There Is Unique Andconsequently Inexpressible In It. Analysis, On The Contrary, Is The Operation Which Reduces The Object To Elements Already Known.

Realism Is In The Work When Idealism Is In The Soul, And It Is Only Through Idealism That We Resume Contact With Reality.