Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their… — 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
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in… — 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
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life… — 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
Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me… — 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
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. — 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
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and… — 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
