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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed o...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense ful...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Our friends, the enemy. [Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certa...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, cou...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collabor...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray; Rosy and round as an apple ...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath cu...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting ...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is t...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to oth...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical concilia...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the e...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinion...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN