Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes And Sayings

At The Heart Of Every Being Lies Creation's Dream Of A Principle That Will One Day Give Organic Form To Its Fragmented Treasures. God Is Unity.

To Our Critical Eyes, The Threads Of Which The Past Is Woven Are, By Nature, Endless And Indivisible. Scientifically Speaking, We Cannot Grasp The Absolute Beginning Of Anything: Everything Extends Backwards To Be Prolonged By Something Else.

The Quantity And Quality Of Consciousness, One May Say, Have Always Been Growing Throughout Geological Times. In This Respect Man, In Whom Nervous Organisation And Therefore Psychological Powers Have Attained An Undisputed Maximum, May Be Considered, Scientifically, As A Natural Centre Of Evolution Of The Primates.

We Spend Our Lives, All Of Us, Waiting For The Great Day, The Great Battle, Or The Deed Of Power. But That External Consummation Is Not Given To Many: Nor Is It Necessary. So Long As Our Being Is Tensed, Directed With Passion, Towards That Which Is The Spirit Of All Things, Then That Spirit Will Emerge From Our Own Hidden, Nameless Effort.

The Number Of Known Human Fossils Only Increases Slowly. But The Manner Of Regarding And Assessing Them Is Capable Of Progressing Rapidly, As Indeed It Does. In The Absence Of Any Absolutely Sensational Discovery In Prehistory, There Is An Up-to-date And Scientific Manner Of Understanding Man, Which Is Solidly Based On Palaeontology.

Whether One Welcomes Or Deplores It, Nothing Is More Surely And Exactly Characteristic Of Modern Times Than The Irresistible Invasion Of The Human World By Technology. Mechanism Invading Like A Tide All The Places Of The Earth And All Forms Of Social Activity.

Humanity At The Centre Of The Primates, Homo Sapiens, In Humanity, Is The End-product Of A Gradual Work Of Creation, The Successive Sketches For Which Still Surround Us On Every Side.

Progressively Saved By The Machine From The Anxieties That Bound His Hands And Mind To Material Toil, Relieved Of A Large Part Of His Work And Compelled To An Ever-increasing Speed Of Action By The Devices Which His Intelligence Cannot Help Ceaselessly Creating And Perfecting, Man Is About To Find Himself Abruptly Plunged Into Idleness.

Humanity Is Still Advancing; And It Will Probably Continue To Advance For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years More, Always On Condition That We Know How To Keep The Same Line Of Advance As Our Ancestors Towards Ever Greater Consciousness And Complexity.

By The Sole Fact Of His Entering Into 'Thought,' Man Represents Something Entirely Singular And Absolutely Unique In The Field Of Our Experience. On A Single Planet, There Could Not Be More Than One Centre Of Emergence For Reflexion.

How Can One Preach Goodness And Love To Men Without At The Same Time Offering Them An Interpretation Of The World That Justifies This Goodness And This Love?

Truly, There Is A Christian Note Which Makes The Whole World Vibrate, Like An Immense Gong, In The Divine Christ. This Note Is Unique And Universal, And In It Alone Consists The Gospel.