One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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