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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spir

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. – David Herbert Lawrence, White Peacock, 1911

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Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. – The Talmud

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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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