Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes About Age

• The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

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  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1971). “Human energy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

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  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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• The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

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• Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

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