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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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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P. Teilhard de Chardin
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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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Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.
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The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.
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The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
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The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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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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Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.
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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
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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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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
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From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.
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Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.
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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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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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