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" 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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" The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Greatness

Passion

Unity

" Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Hands

God

Become

" The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches. "

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Feet

World

Mountain

" The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species. "

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Know

Transformation

World

" 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. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

See

Life

" 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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Behind

Movement

" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "

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Union

Passage

Death

" Being happy is a matter of personal taste. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Being Happy

Personal

Matter

" Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. "

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Theory

Evolution

True

" 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. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Creative

Evil

Power

" At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity. "

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Heart

Unity

Day

" We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. "

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Forever

You

Will

" Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Old

Growing

Growing Old

" 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. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Live

Success

Believe

" 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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Impossible

World

Problem

" All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God

Myself

Habit

" 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. "

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God

Spiritual

New

" 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. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Character

Universe

Stars

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

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Always

Nature

Know

" Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. "

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Love

Universe

" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. "

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Human

Spiritual

Having

" Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Down

Deep Down

Deep

" I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things. "

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Myself

Turn

" Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Friendship

You

" Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. "

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Walk

I Am

" One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one. "

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Difficulty

Upset

" The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates. "

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Man

Say

Respect

" The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Tree

Great

She

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

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Long

Earth

Energy

" 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. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thoughts

Man

Earth