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 Having

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 Grandfather

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 God History Time

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 Bad Good People

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.

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Great Tree Roots Way

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Friendship World May Round Encircle

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

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

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

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

Day Passion Waiting Great

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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Success God Thought World

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Day History Great World

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.

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God Death Blessed Evil

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Happy Matter Being Happy Personal

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Light Facts Follow Evolution

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 Look Happy New

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 Way Deepest

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

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Death Only Union Condition

The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

World Mountain Feet New

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Time Men World

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.

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Sea Stars Man Thought

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Myself Science I Am Look

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

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Society Need Intelligent Morality

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Love Is Spiritual Energy Like

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

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You Like Crime Growing Old

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