Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

French - Philosopher May 1, 1881 - April 10, 1955

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Experience, Spiritual, Human Experience

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, History, God, Time, Man, Fire

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Great, Tree, Roots, Church, Earth, She

Being happy is a matter of personal taste. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Happy, Matter, Being Happy, Personal

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

Love, Alone, Deepest, Living, Way, Them

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life, Smile, Survive, Smiles, Person

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good, People, Good People, Questions

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Women, Men, Limits, Duty, Men And Women

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nature, Beauty, Music, Great, Universe

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Love Is, Adventure, Universe, Like

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When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Faith, Words, Rise, Done, Said, Presence

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Friendship, World, May, Round, Encircle

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man, Words, Problem, Physics, Biology

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Live, Words, Happy, Mind, Self, Feel

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Reflection, Sun, Me, Impression, Order

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Power, Evil, Universe, Creative, Problem

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

History, God, Reunion, Jesus Christ

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death, Only, Union, Necessary, Passage

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Strength, Christian, Earth, Enjoy, Order

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Technology, World, Earth, Tide, Nothing

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science, Man, View, Point Of View, Point

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity, Know, Ancestors, Will, Line

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God, Soul, World, Way, Up, Whole

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You, Growing, Growing Old, Crime, Old

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Passion, Great, Power, Waiting, Day

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought... The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Stars, Sea, Man, Beginning, Name, Born

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