The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The whole life lies in the verb seeing. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin whole-life verbs lying Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin light order science When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin power-of-love important fire Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin venture ocean water Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin together love facts Everything that rises must converge. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ascent The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin tasks age past The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin mind men science Faith has need of the whole truth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin whole-truth whole needs By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin incarnation creation virtue 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 men believe thinking 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 progress essence men So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin serenity reality moving The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin summit two world The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin reflection ideas thinking Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin draws philosophy religion Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin bud complicated men My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin psychics path long We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin long-ago would-be science The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin joints observers knows
