The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Everything that rises must converge.

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 collective soul.

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

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

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. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned