My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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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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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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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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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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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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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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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.
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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