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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
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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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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 whole life lies in the verb seeing.
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The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
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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 past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
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