A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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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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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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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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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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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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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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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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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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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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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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