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 CHARDINIt is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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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 are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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