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Everything that rises must converge.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
Catholic Priest
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Paleoanthropologist
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P. Teilhard de Chardin
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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.
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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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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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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
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No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.
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Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
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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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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
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The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
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Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.
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Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.
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We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
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That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
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Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
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