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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe 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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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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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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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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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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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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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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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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