Elan Vital can refer to:
- Élan vital, a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson roughly translated to vital impetus or force
- Elan Vital (organization), a nonprofit group formed in the United States, active from 1971 to 2010
- Élan Vital (album), an album by the music group Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Elan Vital, a partially sentient machine from the anime series Melody of Oblivion
Famous quotes containing the word vital:
“In view of this half-sight of science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that, “poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)