The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?