There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHowever far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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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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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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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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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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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.
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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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