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"36 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 1 May 1881. Died: 10 April 1955 | Philosopher |

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Life Part Large Give
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, 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.

Someday Mastering Winds Waves
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed

Growing Old Penalized
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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, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Happened Analysis Bad Good
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Links Love Draws Element
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Love Capable Uniting Fulfill
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Human being Spiritual Experience
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Men Women Duty Abilities
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

One Suffer Exist Forever
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Universe Joint Product Observer
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Believe Comprehend Creed
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Love Sacred Energy Blood
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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.

Water Cold Warm Wade
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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.

Driven Forces Fragments World
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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.

Profoundly Atomic Universe Raindrop
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Stuff Historically Concentrated Universe
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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.

Extreme Temperature Stars Survive
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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.

Positivist Mysterious View Object
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Awakening Earth Manifestation Product
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated
Zoologically Isolated Cradle
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Universe Matter World Spirit
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
Imponderable Greater Handle
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One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Close Difficulty Shortcoming Recognizes
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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.

Man Entirely Mankind Unrelated
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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.

Man Thought Console Offspring
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Hindu Religion Impression Plunges
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. 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.

Morality Empirical Defense Society
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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.

Religion Pagan Enjoy Confine
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
God Fidelity Situate Hands
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
Love Adventure Survive Universe
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Cry Life Passion God
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Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Love Direct Marked Element
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Discover Deep Nature Caveman
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
Happy Matter Personal Taste
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
World Friendship Encirle
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Death Represent Physical Passage
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes & Sayings