No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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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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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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