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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. Nicolas Malebranche

You Yourself Judge Will Imperfections Divine Never Him Limitations Judgments Unworthy Provided Dishonor Ascribe Them Created Beings Creator

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. Paul Ricoeur

Demands Because Dialectic Testimony Meaning Event Interpreted

Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found. Peter Abelard

Love God Suffering Grace Liberty Fear Christ Our Out All Things Rather Only Through True Sin Also Him Redemption Greater Within Than Children Order Which Might Us Shown Found Deeper Things Slavery

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others. Peter Singer

Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment. Peter Singer

Love Commitment Light Worn Pledge Given Purity Diamonds Image Symbol

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. Peter Singer

Life Good Family Ethics Face Strangers Live Good Life Philosophy Those Part Individuals Questions Owe Which Central

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends. Peter Singer

Animal Animals Lover Independent Fond Animal Lover Never Involved Became Came Been Human Just Movement Ends Sentient Really Persuaded Should Means Certainly Beings Treated

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected. Peter Singer

Best Good You Judge Try Will Consequences Those Wrong Affected Accordance Whether Means Actions Utilitarian Right

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water. Peter Singer

Education Experience People Water Safety Free Drinking Lose Way Jobs Security Net Economic Drinking Water Countries Safe Also Safety Net Without Healthcare Still Unemployed Affluent Blow Any Children Form Psychological Social Sanitation Payments Social Security

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man Physics Problem Words First Chemistry Biology Other Cosmic Only He First Of All Understood Geology In Other Words Ascending

Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Faith Time Me Walk Christ Universe Assurance Press Though Must Seeing Shadows More Feel Term Am Existence Same Same Time Anyone Much Certain Special Ever Believing Imagine

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity Will Our Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Ancestors Complexity Thousands Thousands Of Years More Advance Advancing Towards Know Greater Always How Still Line Continue Years Condition Same Keep Ever Consciousness

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Time Me Become Strangers Way Cosmic Seems More Environment Terrestrial Another Up Same Gradually Same Time Currents Psychologically Autonomous Against Themselves Incapable Richer Beings Shut

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nature Eyes Backwards Past Beginning Else Our Everything We Cannot Prolonged Critical Woven Threads Something Something Else Absolute Indivisible Scientifically Endless Anything Cannot Which Speaking Grasp

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world - not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man Science World Logical Thought Power Lesson Incredible Earth Say Carry Must Tells Born Entirely More Only Accept Conclusion Scientists His Lecture Than Us Flesh Who Bones

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Me Respect First Energy Profit Unity Our Strikes Distaste Kind Hunting Pursuit Sacredness Buddhist Feel Devoid Also Because End Escape Effort Expenditure Illusory Hare

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Will Paris Up Them Roots Pull

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato

Knowledge Evil Aim Virtuous Becomes

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Plato

Benefit Wrongly Said Author Conferred May Often Injure

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. Plato

Too Much Speed Too Penalty Haste Which Little Much Suffer

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