Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINReligion, 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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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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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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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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