The vital impulse of which we speak consists, in short, in a demand for creation.
L'élan de vie dont nous parlons consiste, en somme, dans une exigence de création.
Philosophers
Henri Bergson
Leading French philosopher (1859-1941). His durée, élan vital and intuition broke with mechanistic time and Darwinian gradualism. Won the 1927 Nobel in Literature; first chair of the League's intellectual committee.
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Source: L'Évolution créatrice (1907)Verified