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The quotations of

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist

1881–1955

7 quotes, most often on Love.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
- Love
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
- Love
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
“The Evolution of Chastity” (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
- Love
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
- Love
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), in Toward the Future (1975), trans. René Hague
- God
- Love

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