My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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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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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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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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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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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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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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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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