Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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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 universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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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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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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Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
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Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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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 a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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