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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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Faith has need of the whole truth.
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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.
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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
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