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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI 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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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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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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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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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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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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The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
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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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