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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Fact Faith History Moment No Release Religious Tell
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Act All Been Habit Ingrain Know Me Sort Thanks
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ancient Imagine Mineral Mobile More Much Science Supple World
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Believe Else Everything Fear Less One Opinion Persecution Thing
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Country Enjoy Greatly Influ Island Little Made One Paradise Real Spite
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

All Condition Evolution General Hypothesis More Much System Theory
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Arose Defence Empirical Individual Large Morality Society
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

All Battle Day Deed Great Live Power Spend Us Wait
Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Characteristic Deplore Exactly Human Invasion Irresistible Modern More Nothing One Surely Technology Time Welcome Whether World
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Acceptance Condition Death Metamorphosis Passage Physical Represent Towards Union
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Eccircle Friendship May Round World
The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Gave Grasp Hindu Impression Order Plunge Reflect Religion Sun Vast Well
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ceiling Country Expres Finally Like Man Partition Penetrate Through
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Believe Comprehend Creed Fully Heard Long Only Short Very
There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Act Contemplate Embrace Evolution Future Knowledge Only Past

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