The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN- Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINReligion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHe that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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 CHARDINThrough fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINDeep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIt is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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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 CHARDINA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINPersonal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHow great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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