The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as… — 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
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of… — 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
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
