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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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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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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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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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I 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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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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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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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