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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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 future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
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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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No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.
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The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.
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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.
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We are collaborators in creation.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
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The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
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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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Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God but everything is capable of becoming good.
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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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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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Faith has need of the whole truth.
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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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