Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 1, 1881 Death: April 10, 1955
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….
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move..
Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every deat….
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts..
The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its c….
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being..
The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give ….
No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and cons….
Above all, trust in the slow work of God..
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….
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….
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it..
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the hi….
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge..
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history ….
More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas..
Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see..
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being..
The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to f….
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned.