The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTruth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNo one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIndividual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin