Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Blessed, Reality, Matter

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.66, Рипол Классик

• The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Years, Unbroken

• 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

  Men, Essence, Progress

• We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Giving Up, Passion, Order

• Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Spiritual, Pregnancy

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Love Is, Blood

• We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Soul

• There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Agency, Sensual, Vision

• 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

  Science, Light, Order

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Reflection, Psychics

• Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Evolution, Process

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Stars, Science, Molecules

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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

  Profound, Way, Evolution

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1972). “On love”

• What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Essence, Roots, Mind

• That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Common, Evolution

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