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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The day will come when, after harnessing the space, the winds, the tides, and gravity; we will harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Nothing is worth finding unless it has never existed before.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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On the cosmic scale, only the fantastic has the possibility of being true.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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We ourselves are our worst enemy. Nothing can destroy Humanity, except Humanity itself.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The dog knows, but doesn't know that it knows.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Charmesse

Charmesse

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Happiness is more with the poor who considers he has enough than with the rich, who never believes he has enough.

S. Chase

S. Chase

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Condemning progress in everything is to forget the orchards that have made seawater desalination possible; idealizing it is to forget Hiroshima.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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While the heart has desire, the imagination retains illusions.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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Forests precede civilizations, deserts follow them.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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Our illusions know no bounds; we taste the bitterness of the cup a thousand times and yet, we still bring our lips to its edge.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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Contempt should only be used sparingly, due to the large number of those in need.