The Vital Spirit. L'élan Vital

For Life Is Tendency, And The Essence Of A Tendency Is To Develop In The Form Of A Sheaf, Creating, By Its Very Growth, Divergent Directions Among Which Its Impetus Is Divided.

Homo Sapiens, The Only Creature Endowed With Reason, Is Also The Only Creature To Pin Its Existence On Things Unreasonable.

The Present Contains Nothing More Than The Past, And What Is Found In The Effect Was Already In The Cause.

Genius Is That Which Forces The Inertia Of Humanity To Learn.

Knowledge, In So Far As It Is Directed To Practical Matters, Has Only To Enumerate The Principal Possible Attitudes Of The Thing Towards Us, As Well As Our Best Possible Attitude Towards It. Therein Lies The Ordinary Function Of Ready-made Concepts, Those Stations With Which We Mark Out The Path Of Becoming. But To Seek To Penetrate With Them Into The Inmost Nature Of Things, Is To Apply To The Mobility Of The Real A Method Created In Order To Give Stationary Points Of Observation On It.