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 CHARDINBy 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.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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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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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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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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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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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.
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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