I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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