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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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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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To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
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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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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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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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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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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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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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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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