That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

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.

The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

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.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.