Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMan only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinDriven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinBy virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFrom an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLove is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinResearch students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin