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Quotes from The Phenomenon of Man — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

1881–1955 France

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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

The fire spreads in ever widening circles till finally the whole planet is covered with incandescence.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

Omega must be independent of the collapse of the forces with which evolution is woven.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

A glow ripples outward from the first spark of conscious reflection.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

If instinct is a variable dimension, the instincts will... create, beneath their complexity, a growing system.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

This book deals with man solely as a phenomenon; but... with the whole pheneomenon...

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

If THIS book is to be properly understood, it must be read not as a work on metaphysics, still less as a... theological essay, but purely and simply as a scientific treatise.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

If the story of life is no more than a movement of consciousness veiled by morphology, it is inevitable that... in the proximity of man, the 'psychical' make-ups seem to reach the borders of intelligence.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

Discontinuity in continuity: that is how... the birth of thought, like that of life, presents... and defines itself.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

Nowhere... is the need more urgent of building a bridge between the... the physical and the moral...

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

What was previously only a centred surface became a centre. By a tiny 'tangential' increase, the 'radial' was turned back on itself and... took an infinite leap forward.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

There is no concept more familiar... than... spiritual energy, yet there is none... more opaque scientifically.

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.