Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHumanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
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Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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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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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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I 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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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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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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This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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