Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINTo be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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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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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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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