I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINDeep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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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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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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We 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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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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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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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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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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So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
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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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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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