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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ancient Imagine Mineral Mobile More Much Science Supple World
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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Back Characteristic Childhood Familiar Far Go However Into More Nothing Seems
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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Consist Live Longer Mak Mind More One Own Renounce Response Self True
We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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Assilimate Experience Heaven Himself Home Impact Manifest Only Permanent Sad Truth
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Believe Comprehend Creed Fully Heard Long Only Short Very
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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Act Complete Conjugate Knowledge Phase Religion Same Science Two
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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Anyway Cold Go Have Matter Through Wade Warm Water
There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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Conviction Envisage Good Hold Independence Many Oneself Question Sacrifice Time
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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Acceptance Condition Death Metamorphosis Passage Physical Represent Towards Union
The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Biologically Conciallation Element Necessary Paradoxicate Unity Utopian Whole
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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Discover God History Man Second Shall Time
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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Fact Faith History Moment No Release Religious Tell
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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Buddist Deel Distance First Hunt Kind Life Respect Sacredness Unity
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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Affinity Draw Element Link Love Together World
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Arose Defence Empirical Individual Large Morality Society
The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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Atomic Character Everyday Experience Profound Universe Visible