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Pierre Teilhard was a consistent personalist. In his youth he may well have experienced the 'fascination of the impersonal and generalized' and confused them with the universal; but as soon as he began to develop his thought, he made a complete change of direction.

— Henri de Lubac The Eternal Feminine (1968)

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The denser the ignorance, the more enlightened it thinks itself to be.

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