Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 1, 1881 Death: April 10, 1955
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality..
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution..
Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over ….
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see..
And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world..
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a ….
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….
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution..
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impo….
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself.
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever….
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..
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth..
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces..
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..
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present….
The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collectiv….
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord..
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….
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, wh….
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development….