It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEvolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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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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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
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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 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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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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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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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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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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