What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.