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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
Catholic Priest
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of complexification.
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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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The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
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