Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

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

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, Round, May, Encircle

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

Spiritual, Experience, Human, Having

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

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, Man, Time, God, Fire

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

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, Questions, Good People

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 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, Man, Sea, Beginning, Thought

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Light, Evolution, Facts, Follow, Lines

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

Happy, Being Happy, Personal, Matter

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, Nothing, Mean

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

Growing Old, You, Growing, Crime, Old

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, She, Earth

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a 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. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Evolution, True, Theory, More, System

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, Chemistry

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Love Is, Together, World, Fact

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world - not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man, Science, Power, World, Thought, Say

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, Influence, Action, Energy, Me

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Spiritual, Love Is, Energy, Blood

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, Difficulty, More, Less

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

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

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Unity, Earth, Spirit, Mankind, Element

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

Work, Family, Man, Great, Paths, Create

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

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