Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThere is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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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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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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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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All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
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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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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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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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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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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