Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 1, 1881 Death: April 10, 1955
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned.
Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence..
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes.….
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of b….
Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contempora….
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love..
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,….
From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. T….
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth..
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 ….
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway..
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….
The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its c….
To love is to approach each other center to center..
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of oursel….
Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good..
Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you..
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….
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation..
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration..
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….