Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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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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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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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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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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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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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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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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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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Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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