The Phenomenon of Man Quotes

“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

“The farther and more deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of increasingly powerful methods, the more we are confounded by the interdependence of its parts.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love. That, it seems to me, is the distillation of The Phenomenon of Man.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

“In no case does the energy required for synthesis appear to be provided by an influx of fresh capital, but by expenditure.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

“evolutionary phenomena (of course including the phenomenon known as man) are processus, they can never be evaluated or even adequately described solely or mainly in terms of their origins: they must be defined by their direction,”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“man's evolution was unique in showing the dominance of convergence over divergence:”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“The history of the living world can be summarised as the elaboration of ever more perfect eyes within a cosmos in which there is always something more to be seen.”
― Teilhard de Chardin, Il fenomeno umano

“in the course of the growth of research; so that, when they reach the end of their analyses they cannot tell with any certainty whether the structure they have reached is the essence of the matter they are studying, or the reflection of their own thought.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

“As a result, man is the only successful type which has remained as a single interbreeding group or species, and has not radiated out into a number of biologically separated assemblages”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“for certain limited purposes it may be useful to think of phenomena as isolated statically in time, they are in point of fact never static:”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“His understanding of the method by which organisms become first individualised and then personalised gave him a number of valuable insights. Basically, the process depends on cephalisation — the differentiation of a head as the dominant guiding region of the body, forwardly directed, and containing the main sense-organs providing information about the outer world and also the main organ of co-ordination or brain.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement — that is to say, in duration.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon Of Man

“They are now beginning to realise that even the most objective of their observations are steeped in the conventions they adopted at the outset and by forms or habits of thought developed in the course of the growth of research; so that, when they reach the end of their analyses they cannot tell with any certainty whether the structure they have reached is the essence of the matter they are studying, or the reflection of their own thought. And at the same time they realise that as the result of their discoveries, they are caught body and soul to the network of relationships they thought to cast upon things from outside: in fact they are caught in their own net. A geologist would use the words metamorphism and endomorphism. Object and subject marry and mutually transform each other in the act of knowledge; and from now on man willy-nilly finds his own image stamped on all he looks at.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

“Az ember az ő számára a világ szeretetét jelentette, és itt zárul le a megszentelés köre.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man