Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

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. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.