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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Matter Neither Spirit Stuff Universe World
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
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All Earth Extract Fundamental Give Himself Man Obligation Think
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.
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Death Enter God Him Love Must Return Surrender Totally
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.
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Always Each Individual Live Sanctify
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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Breage Damage Danger World Draw Fault God Often Ourselves Represent Sorrow
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Commit Crime Grow Increase Like Old Penalize
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Appearance Atmosphere Create Earth Everywhere Evolution Idea Moment New Spiritual
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Defender Die Ideal Many Obscurity Prevail
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
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Centre Create Dissociate Gradual Humanity Most People Person Primitae State Survive Work
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Beauty Confront Music Nature Nostalgia Seize Sense Universe
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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Appearance Essential Influence Outward Purity Subject Virtue
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
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Distance God Him Hostile Let Live Man Neutral Remain Universe
We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Discover God History Man Second Shall Time
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Life Nothing Person Resist Smile

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