I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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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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The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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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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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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