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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French Christian mystic, author

Lived from: 1881 - 1955

Category: Theologians and clergy | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 1 may 1881 Died: 10 april 1955

  • 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 we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

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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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  • 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 we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
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  • Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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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 creation.
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  • Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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  • The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
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  • The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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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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  • We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
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  • You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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What are the most famous quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin?

The two most famous quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are:

  • "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 we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."

When did Pierre Teilhard de Chardin live?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born in 1881 and died in the year 1955.