Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 1, 1881 Death: April 10, 1955
Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you..
Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitud….
Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over ….
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hop….
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break d….
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope..
We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey..
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes..
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ….
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,….
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being….
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation..
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others..
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed..
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth..
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration..
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by l….
Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence..
Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good..
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of oursel….
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, t….