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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Love

1881–1955 France

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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)

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)

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

The Evolution of Chastity (1934)

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.