“Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.”

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.

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?

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

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.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.

This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

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.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations.

Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.

Wherever the centre of a thing lies, there lies its heart, for the word ‘heart’ means centrality.

Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora.

Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.