251 Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification."

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

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

At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.