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The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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
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One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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