To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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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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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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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