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Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
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The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.
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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
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It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
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We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.
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The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
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If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
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The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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