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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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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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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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We are collaborators in creation.
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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 more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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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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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
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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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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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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 reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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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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Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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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 world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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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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