"He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility……" — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"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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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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99 Quotes by 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.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love,…
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different…
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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a…
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to…
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it…
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
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