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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Tags: power, passion, great, waiting

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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.
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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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