Men Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

13 Men quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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If you’re curious about how Teilhard de Chardin viewed the role of men, this brief set of thirteen quotes gives a clear, focused snapshot. It’s enough to spark reflection without overwhelming, perfect for a quick yet meaningful read.

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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in…

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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that…

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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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Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

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Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

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Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development…

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Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are…

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All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of…

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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to…

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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…

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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.

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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,…

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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…

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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,…

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The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

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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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“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.”

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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

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It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building…

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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking…

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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

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