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This soul can only be a conspiracy of individuals. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers. View quote
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Research is the highest form of adoration. View quote
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. View quote
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The feminine is the most formidable of the forces of matter. View quote
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There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. View quote
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We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. View quote
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Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. Receive, O Lord, in its totality the Host which creation, drawn by your magnetism, presents to you at the dawn of a new day. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
Personally, I stick to my idea that we are watching the birth, more than the death, of a World. View quote
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Peace cannot mean anything but a HIGHER PROCESS OF CONQUEST. ... The world is bound to belong to its most active elements. View quote
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Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken. View quote
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In its most general form and from the point of view of physics, love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world, centre to centre. View quote
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. View quote
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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. View quote
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. View quote
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. View quote
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We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.' View quote
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The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. ... Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. View quote
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: May 1, 1881
Died: April 10, 1955
Quotes count: 72
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