The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him. — 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
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic… — 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
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
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
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 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
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow. — 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
“It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
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
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. — 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
“(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
“It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
