Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINSurely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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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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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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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.
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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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.
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