Pierre Teilhard de Chardin quotes
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest, philosopher, and paleontologist, renowned for his attempts to reconcile science and religion. Through his writings, he explored the evolution of humanity and the universe from both scientific and spiritual perspectives. He is remembered for introducing profound concepts such as the Omega Point, envisioning the ultimate unity of human consciousness. Here are 72 of his quotes:
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.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form.... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin