Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

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.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.