Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Date de naissance :	1 Mai 1881
Ville de naissance :	Orcines
Nationalité :	France
Sexe :	Masculin
Profession :	Philosopher
Religion :	Roman Catholic Church
Date de décès :	10 Avril 1955
Ville de décès :	New York City

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin est un jésuite, chercheur, théologien, paléontologue et philosophe français. Il est connu pour ne pas voir d'opposition entre la foi catholique et la science. Scientifique de renommée internationale, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin fut à la fois un géologue spécialiste du...

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Citations de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• “ Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.”
• “ 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.”
• “ 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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• “ Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.”
• “ 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.”
• “ 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.”
• “ The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
• “ We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
• “ 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.”
• “ Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”
• “ The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.”
• “ We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.”
• “ Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
• “ You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
• “ It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.”

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