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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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All Condition Evolution General Hypothesis More Much System Theory
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Can Greater Handle Importendence What World
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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Human Molecule Produce Substance Universe
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Came Country Follow Raw Region Star Steam Myself Universe
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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Arragement Cosmos Deeep Disposition Down Generis Involution Primordial Self Substance Sui
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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Accident Accordance Born Earth Evolution General Law Most One Probably Scarcely
Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
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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Affinity Draw Element Link Love Together World
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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Being Cry Different Earthy Equal Every Life Like Out Passion Something Whole
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
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Alone Being Capable Complete Fulfil Live Love Such Them Ultimate Way
So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
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Effort Hiden Long Nameless Passion Spirit Tensedm Direct Thing Toward
I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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Destroy Disillusioned Grandfather Ironic Person Seem Smile Triumphant
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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All Dissociate Extreme Matter Most Only Our Star State Survive Temperature
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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Beauty Confront Music Nature Nostalgia Seize Sense Universe
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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Adventure Conquest Devote Universe Discover Love Perpetual Survive
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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Ceiling Country Expres Finally Like Man Partition Penetrate Through
However 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.’
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Back Characteristic Childhood Familiar Far Go However Into More Nothing Seems
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
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Beed Born Coextensive Disclose Earth God Individual Man Mankind Relate Religion Whole
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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All Battle Day Deed Great Live Power Spend Us Wait
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Arose Defence Empirical Individual Large Morality Society
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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Age Art Children Experience Feel First Imagine Other Person Religion
The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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Act Contemplate Embrace Evolution Future Knowledge Only Past
The soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
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Bouquet Climate Cover Extraordinary Fragnanve Huge Luxirance Soft Turn
Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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All Behind Clearly Elsewhere Forward Making March Movement Prow Reveal Spray Surely Thrown Wake

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