Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 1, 1881 Death: April 10, 1955
The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses….
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed..
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution..
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord..
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred ass….
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action..
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking….
Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force ….
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepe….
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes..
And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to co….
The dog knows, but does not know that he knows..
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole..
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impo….
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its ….
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces..
Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possib….
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality..
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules..
To see more is to become more..
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in t….