Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.