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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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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Arragement Cosmos Deeep Disposition Down Generis Involution Primordial Self Substance Sui
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Become Concentrate Ever Form Goes Historically Into Matter More Organize Stuff Universe
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Advance Always Condition Continue Humanity Hundred More Probably Still Thousand Year
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Experience Human Spiritual
Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Consequently Contact Each Encroachment Guard Intelligent Need Other
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Always Each Individual Live Sanctify
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Death Enter God Him Love Must Return Surrender Totally
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Confine Earth Enjoy Himself Love Order Pagan Withing
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Accident Accordance Born Earth Evolution General Law Most One Probably Scarcely
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Can Greater Handle Importendence What World
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Christ Christian Divine Go Immense Like Make Note TruluY Vibrate Whole World
At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Creation Day Dream Every Fragment Heart One Organic Principal Treasure Will
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
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Joint Know Observe Product Universe

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