It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
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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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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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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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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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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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