Teilhard De Chardin Quotes

“If there is one thing that has always plunged me into sadness or compassion, I mean into a state that excludes all manner of nastiness or irony, it is the existence of Teilhard de Chardin - not only his existence, but the fact that he has, or could have had, readers, however small the number. In the presence of a reader of Teilhard de Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

“Our doubts, like our misfortunes, are the price we have to pay for the fulfillment of the universe.…’ 
‘Evil is inevitable,’ ” Reuben quoted, “ ‘in the course of a creation which develops within time.’ ”
― Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift