Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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?
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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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