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, Time, God, Fire, Man

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, Exist, Our

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

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

Happy, Being Happy, Matter, Personal

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Stars, Character, Experience, Universe

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

You, Growing, Crime, Growing Old, Old

One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Eyes, Upset, More, Difficulty, Close

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Best, Myself, Me, Turn, Dead, Everything

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, Grandfather, Survive, Mean

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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, Power, Great, Waiting, Day

I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant 'centers of resort': the soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers - extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Flowers, Trees, Paradise, Fragrance

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, Forest, Name

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life, Self, Others, Most, Give, Thing

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God, Me, Energy, Influence, Action

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Alone, World, Unique, Christian, Christ

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Time, Me, Environment, Strangers, Way

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

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science, World, Transformation, Know

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Together, You, Forever, Will, Exist

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Be Happy, Happy, Look, React, Follow

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Passion, Greatness, Unity, Find, Falling

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

Tree, Great, Roots, Church, Earth, She

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, Unhappy

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Family, Work, Great, Man, Create, Want

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Universe, Know, Product, Observer, Joint

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