We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMan 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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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.
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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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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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I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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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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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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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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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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