Biology Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.”

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.

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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's…

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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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“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our…

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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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