"In fact I doubt whether there is a more decisive moment for a thinking being than when the scales..."

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In fact I doubt whether there is a more decisive moment for a thinking being than when the scales fall from his eyes and he discovers that he is not an isolated unit lost in the cosmic solitudes, and realizes that a universal will to live converges and is hominised in him.

In such a vision man is not seen as a static centre of the world… but as the axis and leading shoot of evolution, which is something far finer.

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- Teilhard de Chardin