I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEveryone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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 a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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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 only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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 spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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