To write the true natural ...

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin