A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHow can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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.
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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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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.
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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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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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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.
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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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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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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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