Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Quotes

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

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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.

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Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

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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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Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

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You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

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The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

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The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe - even a positivist one - remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

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I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

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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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There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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