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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

Total quotes: 6

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Birthname

Birthday: May 1, 1881

Death: April 10, 1955

Educated At: Villanova University, University Of Paris, Notre Dame De Mongré High School

Lifestyle: Mystic

Nationality: France

Occupations: Theologian, Paleontologist, Paleoanthropologist, Catholic Priest, Geologist

Religion: Catholicism

Total quotes: 6

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

“Life propagates itself by ceaselessly adding to itself what it successively acquires — like a memory… Something passes, something grows, through the long chain of living creatures.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future Of Man

Tagged: Conservation

“What stares us in the face is often the most difficult to perceive.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

Tagged: Seeing Seeing, Aphorisms, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“What would we do without our enemies? Exterior emergencies or shocks are indispensable to force individuals out of their natural laziness and set routines — and also to periodically break the collective frameworks that imprison them. ”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon

Tagged: Emergency, Enemy

“To push anything back into the past is equivalent to reducing it to its simplest elements. ”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

Tagged: Reductionism

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