Matter Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

12 Matter quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s 12 brief observations on matter gently weave together the concrete and the cosmic, offering a modest yet thought‑provoking glimpse at how physical things might echo a larger, evolving purpose.

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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

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It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could…

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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

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Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us…

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The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as…

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Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of…

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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the…

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.”

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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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