Tag: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin