That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“His understanding of the method by which organisms become first individualised and then personalised gave him a number of valuable insights. Basically,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
