Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
Source: The Divine Milieu (1960), p. 124
“We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.”
— Thomas Hardy, book Jude the Obscure
Source: Jude the Obscure
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Context: Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.
