"If there were no internal propensity to unite,……" — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being."
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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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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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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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