Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMorality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIs evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINTo say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINCertain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHistorically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINNothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINBeing happy is a matter of personal taste.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMy roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHumanity 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.
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