Teilhard de Chardin Quotes at The Creative Process

Teilhard de Chardin (b. 5-1-1881; d. 4-10-1955) French philosopher and paleontologist, primarily wrote on the phenomenon of man and the future of the world.

"My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him."

"Christ is realized in evolution."

"Time and space are organically joined again so as to weave, together, the stuff of the universe."

"Man is not the center of the universe as once we thought in our simplicity, but something much more wonderful – the arrow pointing the way to the final unification of the world.

"...what disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome – ta suitable outcome – tto that evolution."

"And here I am thinking of those astonishing electronic machines (the starting-point and hope of the young science of cybernetics), by which our mental capacity to calculate and combine is reinforced and multiplied by the process and to a degree that herald as astonishing advances in this direction as those that optical science has already produced for our power of vision."

"Life is less certain than death."

"We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses to a sort of superconciousness. The earth not only becoming covered by myriads of grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope, a single unanimous reflection."

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Toward the Future

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