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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Destroy Disillusioned Grandfather Ironic Person Seem Smile Triumphant
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Matter Neither Spirit Stuff Universe World
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

East Greatness Have Been Incomparable Lie None Passion Religion Second Vibrate
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Advance Always Condition Continue Humanity Hundred More Probably Still Thousand Year
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Become Exact Exactly Fidelity God Hand Maintain One Ourselves Situate Them Thought
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Arose Defence Empirical Individual Large Morality Society
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Acceptance Condition Death Metamorphosis Passage Physical Represent Towards Union
By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Absolute Enter Entirely Fact Field Into Represent Singular Sole Something Thought Unique
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Fact Faith History Moment No Release Religious Tell
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Life Nothing Person Resist Smile
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Come Driven Each Force Fragment Love May Other Seek World
I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ceiling Country Expres Finally Like Man Partition Penetrate Through
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Buddist Deel Distance First Hunt Kind Life Respect Sacredness Unity
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Eccircle Friendship May Round World

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