I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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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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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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.
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