Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
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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 mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
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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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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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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