To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin cavemandeepdiscover Change image and share on social
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin countlessgerminateinfinitesimal share on social
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. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin creationdaydream Change image and share on social
Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin forwardleavemankind Change image and share on social
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin analogousancientcreature share on social
The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin actaimaspect share on social
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin arrangementcosmosdeep Change image and share on social
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin affinityagentdraw Change image and share on social
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. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin activitycharacteristicdeplore share on social
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin bonecentrecreator share on social