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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Buddist Deel Distance First Hunt Kind Life Respect Sacredness Unity
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ail Done Evolution Explicitly Man More Need Religion Superlative Survive
This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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Essential Mysticism Name God Note Ourselves Penesterate Utter
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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All Curve Evolution Fact Follow Illuminate Light Line Must
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.
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Ancient Imagine Mineral Mobile More Much Science Supple World
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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Destroy Disillusioned Grandfather Ironic Person Seem Smile Triumphant
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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Atomic Character Everyday Experience Profound Universe Visible
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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Away Best Dead Everything Geology Myself Owe Taught Tend Thing
The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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Act Contemplate Embrace Evolution Future Knowledge Only Past
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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Able Entirely Himself Life Man Mankind Neither See Unable Unrelate Unrelated
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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All Battle Day Deed Great Live Power Spend Us Wait
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.
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Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
The soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
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Bouquet Climate Cover Extraordinary Fragnanve Huge Luxirance Soft Turn
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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After Gravity Ideal Master Someday Wave
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Being Come Driven Each Force Fragment Love May Other Seek World
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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Consist Live Longer Mak Mind More One Own Renounce Response Self True