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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Details about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's life are scarce, but their observations have traveled far and wide. Whether reflecting on Women or Men, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Our collection holds 13 quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, each offering a different angle on Women, Men, Experience, Time, and Love. A favorite of many readers: "Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."

“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good

All Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Friendship

“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Men

“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good

“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Men

“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.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Alone

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Experience

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Experience

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God