Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIt is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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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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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 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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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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In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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