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Men Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- 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…
- Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
- Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,…
- Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
- You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
- Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is…
- A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
- 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 all men, present,…
- The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the…
- We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with…
- It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
- Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle