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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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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That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
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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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Faith has need of the whole truth.
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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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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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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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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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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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Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.
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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
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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 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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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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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 dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
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The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
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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 universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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