Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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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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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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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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Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
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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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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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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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