I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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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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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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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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